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O. Henry O. Henry
Birth name: William Sidney Porter
Aliases: O. Henry, Olivier Henry
Date of birth: September 11, 1862(1862-09-11) [1]
Place of birth: Greensboro (North Carolina, USA)
Date of death: June 5, 1910 (1910-06-05) [1] (47 years old)
Place of death: New York[2]
Citizenship (citizenship): USA
Occupation: novelist, pharmacist (by profession)
Creative years: 1899-1910
Direction: humor
Genre: short story
Language of works: English
Debut: "Whistler Dick's Christmas Gift" (1899)
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O. Henry (English O. Henry, real name William Sidney Porter, English William Sydney Porter; September 11, 1862, Greensboro, North Carolina — June 5, 1910, New York) was a recognized master of the American short story.
His novels are characterized by subtle humor and unexpected denouements.
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1 Biography 2 O. Henry Prize 3 Bibliography 3.1 Works 3.2 Biographies of the writer
4 Film adaptations 5 Notes 6 References
Biography[edit / edit wiki text]
William Porter and his family (daughter Margaret and wife Athol) in the early 1890s
William Sidney Porter was born on September 11, 1862 in the city of Greensboro (North Carolina) in the family of a doctor.
At the age of three, he lost his mother, who died of tuberculosis, and was raised by his paternal aunt, who was the owner of a private school.
After school, he studied to be a pharmacist, worked in a pharmacy with his uncle.
Three years later, he went to Texas, tried different professions — worked on a ranch, delivered water and hot cakes, served in the land administration.
Then he worked as a cashier and accountant in a bank in the Texas city of Austin.
The first literary experiments date back to the early 1880s.
In 1894, Porter began publishing a humorous weekly magazine "The Rolling Stone" in Austin, almost entirely filling it with his own essays, jokes, poems and drawings.
A year later, the magazine was closed, at the same time Porter was dismissed from the bank and brought to court in connection with the shortage, although it was reimbursed by his family.
After being accused of embezzlement, he hid from law enforcement officers for six months in Honduras, then in South America.
Upon his return to the United States, he was convicted and imprisoned in Columbus, Ohio, where he spent three years and four days (1898-1901).
His prison number was No. 34627.
In prison, Porter worked in the infirmary and wrote short stories, looking for a pseudonym.
In the end, he chose the option of O. Henry (often incorrectly written like the Irish surname O'Henry O'Henry).
Its origin is not entirely clear.
The writer himself claimed in an interview that the name of Henry was taken from the secular news column in the newspaper, and the initial O. was chosen as the simplest letter.
He told one of the newspapers that O. stands for Olivier (French name Olivier), and indeed, he published several stories there under the name Olivier Henry.
According to other sources, this is the name of the famous French pharmacist Etienne Ocean Henry, whose medical reference book was popular at that time.
Another hypothesis was put forward by the writer and scientist Guy Davenport: "O. Henry" is nothing more than an abbreviation of the name of the prison where the author was sitting Ohio Penitentiary (Ohio State Penitentiary).
Also known as the Arena District, which burned to the ground on April 21, 1930.
There is an opinion that " The famous American writer W. Porter took the pseudonym O. Henry in honor of the physicist J. Henry, whose name was constantly pronounced with admiration by the school teacher: "Oh!
Henry!
It was he who discovered that the discharge of a capacitor through a coil is of an oscillatory nature!"[3]
He wrote his first story under this pseudonym - "Dick the Whistler's Christmas Gift", published in 1899 in McClure's Magazine in prison.
The only novel by O. Henry — "The Kings and Cabbages" (Cabbages and Kings) — was published in 1904.
It was followed by collections of short stories: "Four Million" (The Four Million, 1906), "The Burning Lamp" (The Trimmed Lamp, 1907), "Heart of the West" (Heart of the West, 1907), "The Voice of the City" (The Voice of the City, 1908), "The Noble Crook" (The Gentle Grafter, 1908), "Roads of Destiny" (Roads of Destiny, 1909), "Favorites" (Options, 1909), "Business People" (Strictly Business, 1910) and "Rotation" (Whirligigs, 1910).
At the end of his life, Porter suffered from cirrhosis of the liver and diabetes[4].
Porter died on June 5, 1910 in New York at the age of 47.
He is buried in Asheville (North Carolina), at the Riverside Cemetery.
The collection "Postscripts", published after the death of O. Henry, includes feuilletons, sketches and humorous notes written by him for the newspaper "Mail" (Houston, Texas, 1895-1896).
In total, O. Henry wrote 273 stories, the complete collection of his works is 18 volumes.
O. Henry Award[edit / edit wiki text]
Eight years after his death, the O. Henry Prize was established in memory of the writer, which is awarded annually.
Bibliography[edit / edit wiki text]
Works[edit / edit wiki text]
Main article: List of works by O. Henry
"Cabbages And Kings "1904" Kings and Cabbage " (novel)
Collections of short stories:
"The Four Million", 1906"The Trimmed Lamp", 1907 "Heart Of The West", 1907"The Gentle Grafter", 1908 "The Voice Of The City", 1908"Roads Of Destiny", 1909 "Options", 1909"Whirligigs" ("Rotation"), 1910"Strictly Business" ("Business People"), 1910"Sixes And Sevens" ("Sixes of Sevens"), 1910"Rolling Stones" ("Under a lying stone"), 1910"Waifs And Strays" ("Remnants" or"A little of Everything"), 1910
Biographies of the writer[edit / edit wiki text]
The Complete Works of O. Henry, Nelson Doubleday, Garden City, N.-Y., 1927 O. Henry.
A Biography, by Alphonse Smith.
Through the Shadows with O. Henry, by Al Jennings [5] E. O'Brien in the book.
The Advance of the American short story, N.-Y., 1923 by V. M. Fritsche.
"Three Americans", "New World", 1925, No.
5. Tanaseychuk A. B. O. Henry : two lives of William Sidney Porter.
- Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 2013.
- 267, [3] p., [8] L. il — - (The life of remarkable people; Issue 1602 (1402)).
- 5000 copies.
- ISBN 978-5-235-03591-1 Vnukov N. A.
The one who called himself " O 'Henry" Semenov Yu.
S. " Versions.
Pseudonym" (what was hidden behind the history of embezzlement in the bank)
Film adaptations[edit / edit wiki text]
1933 Soviet director Lev Kuleshov made the film "The Great Comforter", which is based on the facts from the biography of O. Henry, as well as two of his short stories.
1952 based on the stories of O. Henry, the American film "The Chief of the Redskins and others..." was shot with Marilyn Monroe in a small role (the novella "Pharaoh and the Chorale").
1958 — based on the story of the same name by O. Henry, director Joseph Shapiro made a short film "The Rotation of Life" .
1959 — based on the story by O. Henry "The Leader of the Redskins", director Henri Verneuil made a feature film "The Big Boss/Le grand chef" with Fernandel in the title role.
1962 — soviet director Leonid Gaidai made a trilogy "Business people", which included short films "Roads that we choose", "Kindred souls", "The chief of the Redskins."
1972 director Valentina Marushevskaya shot the film novella "The Gifts of the Magi" based on the story of the same name by O. Henry, included in the Polish TV movie "Decameron 40".
1978 — based on the novel "Kings and Cabbage", director Nikolai Rasheev shot the film of the same name.
1978 director Algimantas Puypa made the film "I will not be a gangster, dear" based on the stories of the American writer O. Henry "Peaches", "Russian Sables", "Gifts of the Magi", "Pharaoh and Chorale".
1982 based on the stories of O. Henry from the collection "The Noble Rogue", a three part film "The Trust that Burst" directed by Alexander Pavlovsky, with the main characters Andy Tucker (Regimantas Adomaitis) and Jefferson Peters (Nikolai Karachentsov) was shot.
1984 director Tynis Kask made the film "Two Couples and Loneliness" based on the stories of O. Henry.
1998 director Bob Clark made the film "The Abduction of the Red Chief" based on the story of O. Henry "The Red Chief".
1999 - The series "Masks of the show" — "Masks in crime" was filmed as a parody of the story "The Leader of the Redskins"
Notes[edit / edit wiki text]
↑ Go to: 1 2 data.bnf.fr -2011.
↑ Record #118639536 / / Gemeinsame Normdatei — 2012-2015.
↑ S. A. Tikhomirova, B. M. Yavorsky.
Physics.
11th grade: study.
for general education.
institutions (basic and profile levels) - 3rd ed., ster.
- M.: Mnemosyne, 2012.
- p. 55 .
Горь The bitter fate of the merry O ' Henry ↑ Al Jennings.
With O. Henry at the bottom /translated by V. Azov.
- Goslitizdat, 1926.
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