The Gift of the Magi
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The History of Literature #347 – The Prisoner and His Prize – The Story of O Henry (with Jenny Minton Quigley)
William Sidney Porter (1862-1910) packed a lot of life into his 47 years, traveling from a childhood in North Carolina to work as a rancher and bank teller in Texas to a desperate escape to Honduras, where he hoped to avoid federal prosecution for embezzlement. Eventually he spent three years in prison, where he began Continue reading
