阅读短文，然后用括号中所给动词的适当形式填空。

O. Henry was a great (write). His pen name was O. Henry. His real name was William Sydney Porter. He was born in North California in 1862. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas, there he (try) different jobs, and then had a job as a bank assistant. When some money went missing from the bank, some people (think) he was the thief, so he was sent into prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short (story).

After he got out of the prison, he went to New York and continued the (life) of the poor there. People liked his way of (write).