He also wrote about Jimmy Valentine, who is forced to reveal his hidden past as a (*) safecracker to save his fiancée's niece, in "A Retrieved Reformation."
This author wrote about Blinker, who falls in love with Florence and later learns he owns the housing development in which she lives, in the story "Brickdust Row." In another of his stories, Sue convinces the artist Behrman to paint the title object before he dies, thus convincing the pneumonia-addled Johnsy to survive when it fails to fall. He also wrote about Jimmy Valentine, who is forced to reveal his hidden past as a (*) safecracker to save his fiancée's niece, in "A Retrieved Reformation." In another story by this author of "The Last Leaf," Sam is re-named "Snake-eye, the Spy," and told by a boy that he is to be broiled at the stake at sunrise; in that story, found in The Four Million, Sam and his friend Bill end up returning Johnny to his father, Ebenezer Dorset. For 10 points, name this author of "The Ransom of Red Chief" and a story in which Jim and Della get each other ironically useless presents, "The Gift of the Magi."
This author wrote about Blinker, who falls in love with Florence and later learns he owns the housing development in which she lives, in the story "Brickdust Row."
O. Henry [or William Sydney Porter]