O. Henry
结局出人意料的文豪——欧·亨利

O. Henry (1862-1910), pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, was an prolific American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and clever twist endings.
欧·亨利(1862—1910)是威廉·悉尼·波特的笔名，一位多产的美国作家。欧·亨利的短篇小说以其风趣、双关、温情的人物塑造和出人意料的结局著称。

William Sydney Porter was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. His father was a physician. When William was three, his mother died from tuberculosis; he and his father moved into the home of his paternal grandmother. As a child, Porter was always reading, everything from classics to dime novels; his favorite works were Lane's translation of One Thousand and One Nights , and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.
威廉·悉尼·波特于1862年9月11日出生在北卡罗来纳州的格林斯伯勒。他的父亲是一名内科医生。威廉三岁时，母亲死于肺结核，他便和他的父亲搬到了祖母家中。孩提时代的波特总是在读书，从名著经典到廉价小说；他最喜欢的作品是莱恩的译作《一千零一夜》和伯顿的《忧郁的解剖》。

O. Henry's stories frequently have surprise endings. In his day, he was called “the American answer to Guy de Maupassant”. While both authors wrote plot twist endings, O. Henry stories were considerably more playful. His stories are also known for witty narration. O. Henry's work is wide-ranging, and his characters can be found roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the con-man, 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.
欧·亨利的作品常有出人意料的结局。在那个时代，他被称为“美国的居伊·德·莫泊桑”。这两位作家的作品都有曲折的情节和结局，但欧·亨利的作品更有趣。他的故事也以诙谐的叙述著称。欧·亨利的作品内容广泛，作品中的角色或是漫游得克萨斯牧场，或是探索骗子艺术，或是在对世纪之交的纽约社会阶层和财富的剑拔弩张进行调查。欧·亨利的独特之处在于他非常善于隔离社会的一些元素，然后运用简洁而优雅的语言来描述它们，令人惊叹。