William Sidney Porter (1862-1910),Also known as O.Henry,He was born in 1862 in North Carolina（北卡罗来纳州）, where he spent his childhood.,When he was eighteen years old， because of his coughing body, he went to Texas（德克萨斯州）.,In 1887 he married Athol Estes （阿索尔艾斯蒂斯）, they had one daughter and one son.,In early 1898 ，he was found guilty of embezzlement （贪污罪），and sentenced to five years in an Ohio prison（被判处到俄亥俄州监狱5年）.,He moved to New York City,where over the next ten years before his death in 1910,he published over 300 stories and gained worldwide acclaim as American favorite short story writer（作为美国最受欢迎的短篇小说作家获得了世界的好评）.,He died on June 5,1910 in New York City at the age of forty seven.,After doing three years of the five years sentence, Porter emerged from the prison（出狱） in1901 and changed his name to O. Henry.,Cabbages and Kings 白菜与国王 The Four Million 四百万 The Gift of Magi 麦琪的礼物 The Last Leaf 最后一片叶子 Mammon and the Archer 财神和爱神 The Ransom of Red Chief 红色酋长的救赎 The Furnished Room 带家具出租的房间 The Cop and the Anthem 警察和赞美诗,Main Works,O.Henrys Writing Style,A master of surprise endings, who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. Typical for O. Henrys stories is a twist（融合） of plot （情节）which turns（运转） on an ironic （具有讽刺意味的）or coincidental（巧合的） circumstance（环境）. In his works, O.Henry presents the panorama of the American people to readers with ironic and humorous tone（用讽刺和幽默的口吻向读者呈现美国民众的全景图）.,Influence,The father of the modern American short story现代美国短篇小说之父 American life humor encyclopedia 美国生活的幽默百科全书 Short prose writer laureate as Manhattan 曼哈顿桂冠散文作家,O Henry style ending,欧亨利式结尾,The so-called “ O Henry style ending ” , the plot suddenly let the psychological characters of situational changes occur beyond all expectations , or make the hero destiny suddenly reversed , appear beat all results , but also in the reason , in line with the reality of life , resulting in the unique artistic charm . The end of art . O Henrys work has fully reflected . 所谓“欧亨利式结尾”，指在文章情节结尾时突然让人物的心理情境发生出人意料的变化，或是使主人公命运陡然逆转，出现意想不到的效果，但又在情理之中，符合生活实际，从而造成独特的艺术魅力。这种结尾艺术，在欧亨利的作品中有充分的体现。,THANK YOU!,