谁能提供一下欧亨利的英文个人介绍啊?

欧.亨利 O.Henry 原名：威廉·西德尼·波特 William Sydney Porter
(1862-1910),二十世纪初美国著名的短篇小说家.他接触过形形色色的人物，了解不少坎坷离奇的故事,写作风格又颇为独特。他与莫泊桑、契诃夫堪称世界三大短篇小说巨匠。
欧.亨利一生写过三百多篇短篇小说,他的许多小说都是以美国城乡下层人民的穷困生活为描写对象,对他们的悲惨生活寄予极大同情.对社会法律,道德,金钱等批判得相当有力.语言又简洁明快,留有想象的余地.
在小说解除悬念时往往使主人公的命运突然发生一个一百八十度的大转弯,使读者的种种预测完全落空.这种大转弯造成了读者思维的陡然"反转",一方面满足了解除悬念的需要,另一方面又使读者深陷于意料之外的艺术情趣之中.而这种"反转"既以大出人之所料的突变手法出现,又以层层剥笋的渐进手法展开.悬念的答案一个比一个更出人意料,这一次次的"反转",效果一次比一次更撼动人心,从而构成了全篇的高潮,凝聚成"殴·亨利式的结尾"，博得了世人的赞叹。
1862.9.11生于美国北卡罗来纳州。父亲是医生，幼年丧母与父兄移居祖母和姑妈家，姑妈讲的故事对他有一定的影响。
1887年与阿索尔.埃斯蒂斯结婚，次年生一子，但生后不久即夭折，第二年又生一女玛格丽特，妻子健康情况随即恶化。
曾一度富庶，办杂志，有医师资格证。后在一家银行工作，期间丢失了一笔钱，他去了新奥尔良。几年后妻子病入膏肓他赶回，1897年妻病逝，1898年以因工作之便盗窃银行财物被判5年，在狱中写短篇补贴女儿。
因有医师资格证，在*医务室工作，笔名欧.亨利原是*中一本法国药典作者的名字。
1901年因表现好提前获释，去纽约写作。
1904年第一部小说《白菜与皇帝》（长篇，实为几个短篇的和体）
短篇小说集：《四百万》1906
〈西部之心〉1907
〈都市之声〉1908
1907年与童年女友萨拉·林赛·科尔曼结婚，即开始酗酒。
1901.6.5，在卧床6个月之后不幸病逝。
短篇小说集：〈善良的骗子〉、〈命运之路〉、〈陀螺〉等，都是在他死后问世的。
美国自1918年起设立“欧.亨利纪念奖”以奖励每年度的最佳短篇小说，由此可见其声望之卓著。

O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). Porter wrote around 400 short stories in his lifetime and raised the short story to a literary art form. His stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endings.
O. Henry stories are famous for their surprise endings. He was called the American Guy De Maupassant. Both authors wrote twist endings, but O. Henry stories were much more playful and optimistic.
Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early years of the 20th century. Many take place in New York City, and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses. His stories are also well known for witty narration.
Fundamentally a product of his time, O. Henry's work provides one of the best English examples of catching the entire flavor of an age. Whether roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the "gentle grafter", or investigating the tensions of class and wealth in turn-of-the-century New York, O. Henry had an inimitable hand for isolating some element of society and describing it with an incredible economy and grace of language. Some of his best and least-known work resides in the collection Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period.
The Four Million (a collection of stories) opens with a reference to Ward McAllister's "assertion that there were only 'Four Hundred' people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen—the census taker—and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the 'Four Million'". To O. Henry, everyone in New York counted. He had an obvious affection for the city, which he called "Bagdad [sic]-on-the-Subway,"[1] and many of his stories are set there—but others are set in small towns and in other cities.
"A Municipal Report" opens by quoting Frank Norris: "Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are 'story cities'—New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco." Thumbing his nose at Norris, O. Henry sets the story in Nashville.
"The Gift of the Magi" concerns a young couple who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts. Unbeknownst to Jim, Della sells her most valuable possession, her beautiful hair, in order to buy a platinum fob chain for Jim's watch; unbeknownst to Della, Jim sells his most valuable possession, his watch, to buy jeweled combs for Della's hair. The essential premise of this story has been copied, re-worked, parodied, and otherwise re-told countless times in the century since it was written.
"The Ransom of Red Chief" concerns two men who kidnap a boy of ten. The boy turns out to be so bratty and obnoxious that the desperate men ultimately pay the boy's father two hundred and fifty dollars to take him back.
"The Cop and the Anthem" concerns a New York City hobo named Soapy, who sets out to get arrested so he can spend the cold winter as a guest of the city jail. Despite efforts at petty theft, vandalism, disorderly conduct, and "mashing", Soapy fails to draw the attention of the police. Disconsolate, he pauses in front of a church, where an organ anthem inspires him to clean up his life—whereupon he is promptly arrested for loitering.
"A Retrieved Reformation" has safecracker Jimmy Valentine take a job in a small-town bank in order to case it for a planned robbery. Unexpectedly, he falls in love with the banker's daughter, and decides to go straight. Just as he's about to leave to deliver his specialized tools to an old associate, a lawman who recognizes him arrives at the bank, and a child locks herself in the airtight vault. Knowing it will seal his fate, Valentine cracks open the safe to rescue the child—and the lawman lets him go.
"Compliments of the Season" describes several characters' misadventures during Christmas [1].
Porter never admitted how he came up with the name O. Henry as a pseudonym. There are a few popular theories:
In *, movement of *ers and staff is done "by the book", sign in and sign out. One of the guards in Columbus was named Orrin Henry and he would sign the book O. Henry. Porter liked it and adopted the signature as his nom de plume.
The Harrells, with whom Porter stayed with in Austin, had a cat named Henry that Porter would play with. The cat would come running when Porter would shout "Oh, Henry!"
He took the name from the place he was im*ed, the Ohio State Penitentiary.
In New Orleans, before he left for the Honduras, Porter would often call to the bartender of his favorite saloon, "Oh Henry, set 'em up again!"

O.Henry (O.Henry,September 11,1862-June 5,1910),also translated O'Henry,William Sidney Porter (William Sydney Porter) pseudonym.美国小说家,其短篇小说构思精巧,风格独特,以欧·亨利式结尾扬名与世.American...