"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story written by-

The Gift of the Magi:
- short story by O. Henry, published in the New York Sunday World in 1905 and then collected in The Four Million (1906).
Plot:
- The story concerns James and Della Dillingham Young, a young couple who, despite their poverty, individually resolve to give each other an elegant gift on Christmas Eve.

William Sydney Porter:
- American short story writer and made his pen name of O'Henry synonymous with surprise endings.
- In a little more than one decade, he published more than two hundred stories in magazines and books, some of which are still well known one century later.

Best work:
- The Rolling Stone
- The Gentle Grafter
- Sixes and Sevens
- Roads of Destiny
- The Gift of the Magi
- The Ransom of the Chief

Source : Britannica.com