The Independent . carce-ly produce stories rapidly il!< freat success lay in a wide observation Q and books; freedom from all literary con-• ihI sympathy, and real genius in the? before O. Henry became successful were really. for he was unconsciously gathering materialfrom which to draw lavishly in his last few years of actual life he was William Sidney Porter: 0. Henry isyn chosen because he was attracted by theme Henry seen ina New Orleans newspaper,: he thought the letterto write. (). Henryborn in Greenboro,in 1862,but he lived as citizen of aworld, seeing life in
The Independent . carce-ly produce stories rapidly il!< freat success lay in a wide observation Q and books; freedom from all literary con-• ihI sympathy, and real genius in the? before O. Henry became successful were really. for he was unconsciously gathering materialfrom which to draw lavishly in his last few years of actual life he was William Sidney Porter: 0. Henry isyn chosen because he was attracted by theme Henry seen ina New Orleans newspaper,: he thought the letterto write. (). Henryborn in Greenboro,in 1862,but he lived as citizen of aworld, seeing life initral America andTexas, thru the great West,t of Lit-tle d-on-the-Hud-son. Like many otherwriters he had no particu-lar education except thatlined in the school ofhard knocks and experi-ence. H,. was clerk in adrug store; ranchman ine in a bank;humoronpaper; reporter; adven-turer in Central America;literary worker in Newfinally in N<k a n «i everywherefor life. Withoutforty-the result ofg at high pressure,. o O. HENRY • ••;, ??•• wta •-• and -miles, with sniffles predominating all. Ami Bixtj centsofit While the mistress of the home is grad- Peni saved one uallj subsiding from the firs! sti to the • time bj bulldozing econd, take a 1 < at the home. A fur- table man and the a humeri with the parsimony thai Buchplied. Three time. Deliadollar day would Christ- ? ? do but flop . * ich ami howl. the moralthai lif« gobs, snif- but in his forty-eight years he lived longer than most men,ami he wrote more than ten volumes of short stories thatare still best sellers. When some one asked O. Henry how to write a short storyhe said: Please yourself. There is no second rule. Andplease himself he did—using slang, coining words, violatingthe rules of sentence structure, violating the rules of par-agraphing; writing with unusual dashes, parentheses, ex-? clamation points and capital letters; making false allusionsintentionally; breaking into his stories wit
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