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The Gift of the Magi
-- By O. Henry --
William Sydney Porter, best known by his pseudonym O. Henry was born on September 11, 1862 in North Carolina. At the time of his birth, the Southern Confederacy State was a contentious battleground in the American Civil War. In his youth, Porter was an avid reader, but originally had taken a path away from the writer he would become and became a licensed pharmacist at the age of 19.
At the age of 35, Porter was convicted of embezzlement and began a five year sentence at the Ohio Penitentiary. It was during this time that Porter began writing; publishing 14 stories under various pseudonyms including the first use of the name O. Henry. The name was first used under his publication of the story Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking. Gift of the Magi was first published in The New York Sunday World Newspaper in 1905 and again later in O. Henry's 1906 anthology The Four Million, his second collection of short stories.
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By Patrick Fennell-- By O. Henry --
William Sydney Porter, best known by his pseudonym O. Henry was born on September 11, 1862 in North Carolina. At the time of his birth, the Southern Confederacy State was a contentious battleground in the American Civil War. In his youth, Porter was an avid reader, but originally had taken a path away from the writer he would become and became a licensed pharmacist at the age of 19.
At the age of 35, Porter was convicted of embezzlement and began a five year sentence at the Ohio Penitentiary. It was during this time that Porter began writing; publishing 14 stories under various pseudonyms including the first use of the name O. Henry. The name was first used under his publication of the story Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking. Gift of the Magi was first published in The New York Sunday World Newspaper in 1905 and again later in O. Henry's 1906 anthology The Four Million, his second collection of short stories.