Life In O Henry's Abnormal Life

O Henry lived an abnormal life. O Henry’s family life was not very good. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on 11 September, 1868.(Patterson) O Henry’s mother was dead and father was alcoholic. Because of these reasons he was taken care of his grandmother. He was taught writing and literature by his aunt.(Martin) He was not able to have a happy family life in with this kind of situation. O Henry was internal person. In his teenage life, he worked in a drug store. He liked a girl named Sarah and he wanted to date with her.(Martin) However, he had to leave Texas.(Patterson) He was unable to date with Lindsay.(Martin) O Henry was married but had a terrible situation in his marriage time. Athol Estes marry with O Henry. They had a happy

Many short stories were wrote by O Henry.(Martin) O Henry became famous for his stories. His prison life gave him the experience of writing. Until he was out of prison, he wrote many stories. This specific story became very famous later on.(Patterson) From this prison time, O Henry’s life as a writer begins. In early period of his life, O Henry was dead. He was dead in New York City. On June 5, 1910, O Henry was dead. The age of O Henry was only 48 when he die .(Patterson) It was a pretty short life for a man to live. However, even though he died early, he is still remembered as a great short story writer in America.
The golden age of O Henry began in New York City. O Henry wrote many books in New York City. He wrote his books in Ainslee’s and MCclure’s Magazine.(Martin) He worked for this magazine company and published many of his books.(Miller) This place was his main stage of writing in New York City. He wrote and published The Gift of the Magi in the state.(Patterson) New York City was a big city in 1900s. During this time, New York’s population was 3,437,202.(Population) New York City was growing and a condensed city. It was a port city. There were the big port and Erie Canal. The city became large and rich because of those two.(Lambert)
Through late 1800s to 1900s, many events happened in

There was Realism and it was popular. Realism shows truth of the real world. Its style is mostly based on author’s thought. Also, during the same era, there was the Civil War so this influenced Realism. Therefore, the stories contain ideas of war. Mark Twain was one of the famous authors who had Realism in his book during this time. On the other hand, there was also Romanticism in America. It was different from Realism that it was based on fantasy. Romanticism makes audiences to imagine above the real world. It also contains the author’s politics and religion. This originally came from Europe. O Henry was influenced by this philosophy because in his time there was Romanticism in America.(White)
He did many things in his life. O Henry wrote lots of various kinds of series. As an example, Four Millions is a famous series written by O Henry. Most of people in America know about this series and stories of books inside of it. This series can be recognized as his master work. The gift if the Magi is one of the stories in the Four Millions. There are other famous short stories in the series.(Patterson) O Henry also wrote many different famous stories. He wrote The Rolling Stones which is magazine.(Connie) He is commonly known as writer but he also wrote magazine. All these books and magazines are popular and well known in