The great writer, O. Henry, began life as William Sidney Porter. Porter spent time in Honduras to avoid embezzlement charges in the United States. He eventually returned to the United States and spent time in jail, which is where he began writing the adventure stories that made him famous.
There seems to be a lot of people that have become famous after pulling time in jail like Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, and a lot of other country singers. I didn’t know about o. Henry though.