![]() ![]() ![]() The story was first published as a book in December 1944, with illustrations by Rafaello Busoni. ![]() After several screenwriters worked on adaptations, RKO sold the rights to the story in 1945 to Frank Capra's production company for the same $10,000, which he adapted into It's a Wonderful Life. RKO purchased the motion picture rights for $10,000 in April 1944. One of the pamphlets came to the attention of RKO Pictures producer David Hempstead, who showed it to actor Cary Grant, who was interested in playing the lead role. ![]() Inspired by a dream, Stern published a 4,000-word short story called "The Greatest Gift" in 1943 after working on it since the late 1930s but, unable to find a publisher, he sent the 200 copies he had printed to friends as Christmas cards in December 1943. Stern is most remembered today for a short story that he wrote in 1943. He compiled and edited many collections and anthologies of short stories, pictorial books, annotations, and books on historical subjects. He was the general manager of Editions for the Armed Services. Philip Van Doren Stern was a historian and editor who compiled and annotated short story collections and the writings and letters of Abraham Lincoln, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry David Thoreau.Īfter graduating from Rutgers in 1924, he worked in advertising before switching to a career as a designer and editor in publishing.ĭuring World War II, he was a member of the planning board of the United States Office of War Information. Stern grew up in Brooklyn, New York and New Jersey, and graduated from Rutgers University before becoming an author of some 40 books and editor most known for his books on the Civil War that a New York Times obituary called "authoritative" and "widely respected by scholars". His Pennsylvania-born father was a traveling merchant of Bavarian descent, who came to Wyalusing from West Virginia with his New Jersey-born wife. Philip Van Doren Stern was born in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania into a family of humble means. ![]()
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