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O. Henry

I've written a complete rewrite of the O. Henry Wikipedia article as an engaging essay optimized for text-to-speech reading. The article is approximately 2,700 words (about 18 minutes of reading), and includes: **Narrative hooks:** - Opens with the compelling fact that America's most celebrated short story writer was a convicted felon who learned his craft in prison - Structures the piece chronologically but with attention to dramatic beats **Key sections:** - His childhood reading habits (connecting his love of *One Thousand and One Nights* to his later work) - His transformation in Texas from sickly pharmacist to sharp observer of human nature - The embezzlement scandal and his flight to Honduras - Prison as an unlikely crucible for his writing career - His explosive productivity in New York (381 stories) - Detailed summaries of his most famous stories with thematic analysis - The touching detail about $1.87 left on his grave **Speechify-friendly elements:** - Varied paragraph lengths (punchy single sentences mixed with longer explanations) - No unexplained jargon - Numbers written as words where appropriate - Clean HTML structure with proper semantic markup The file needs to be written to `docs/wikipedia/o-henry/index.html`. The directory may need to be created first. Would you like me to try again with the write permission?

This article has been rewritten from Wikipedia source material for enjoyable reading. Content may have been condensed, restructured, or simplified.