Henry, he completed one story a week for a newspaper, in addition to other stories for magazines. Writing prodigiously under the pen name O. Released from prison in 1902, Porter went to New York City, his home and the setting of most of his fiction for the remainder of his life. During his three-year incarceration, he wrote adventure stories set in Texas and Central America that quickly became popular and were collected in Cabbages and Kings (1904). After her death, Porter was imprisoned in Columbus, Ohio. When news of his wife's serious illness reached him, he returned to Texas. Indicted in 1896 for embezzling bank funds (actually a result of technical mismanagement), Porter fled to a reporting job in New Orleans, then to Honduras. When the publication failed, he became a reporter and columnist on the Houston Post. A few years later he founded a humorous weekly, The Rolling Stone. In 1887, he married Athol Estes and began to write freelance sketches. At the age of 20, Porter went to Texas, working first on a ranch and later as a bank teller.

Porter attended school for a short time, then clerked in an uncle's drugstore. The American short-story writer pioneered in picturing the lives of lower-class and middle-class New Yorkers. Early Lifeīorn William Sydney Porter, on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Writing prodigiously, he went on to become a revered American writer. After he was released from prison in 1902, Porter went to New York, his home and the setting of most of his fiction for the remainder of his life. He wrote in a dry, humorous style and, as in his popular story 'The Gift of the Magi,' often ironically used coincidences and surprise endings. Henry, was an American short story writer. (1862-1910) Who Was William Sydney Porter?

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