“I did more reading between my thirteenth and nineteenth years,” he wrote, “than I have ever done in all the years since, and my taste at the time was much better than it is now, for I read nothing but the classics.” This literary background proved valuable when, as a man in his late thirties, he was imprisoned in a Ohio federal penitentiary in 1898-after fleeing to Honduras as a fugitive-on a charge of embezzling from the bank in Austin, Texas, where he had been an employee. Web store price: $19.50Although William Sidney Porter had very little schooling, he was a voracious reader as a teenager. The 50 Funniest American Writers*: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion
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