- Known for Ironic plot twists and surprise endings
- Once charged with Embezzling funds from a Texas bank
- Began writing full time in New York after being released from jail
- Wrote at a rate of more than one story A WEEK
- Real name William Sydney Porter
- Dropped out of school at age 15
- After he embezzled the funds he fled to Honduras
- In 1984 he founded the Rolling Stone
- Some famous stories " The Gift of the Magi" " The Furnished Room" " The Ransom of Red Chief"
- The O'Henry award named for him
- All this from Student Encarta
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