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Philip Van Doren Stern

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Philip Van Doren Stern was an American writer, editor, and Civil War historian whose story "The Greatest Gift", published in 1943, inspired the classic Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

Books

The Greatest Gift
The Greatest Gift
Philip Van Doren Stern
The Greatest Gift
The Greatest Gift
Philip Van Doren Stern
It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life
Philip Van Doren Stern, Jack Sharkey, Thomas M. Sharkey, David J. Blackburn
Philip Van Doren Stern, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra
It's a Wonderful Life
Screenplay
It's a Wonderful Life
Philip Van Doren Stern, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra
It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life
Philip Van Doren Stern, Frank Capra, James W. Rodgers
Philip Van Doren Stern, Edgar Allan Poe
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe. Sel. and Ed. with an Introd. and Notes by Philip VanDoren Stern. 18. Printing
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe. Sel. and Ed. with an Introd. and Notes by Philip VanDoren Stern. 18. Printing
Philip Van Doren Stern, Edgar Allan Poe
Travelers in Time
Travelers in Time
Philip Van Doren Stern
The Breathless Moment
The Breathless Moment
Philip Van Doren Stern
The Man who Killed Lincoln
The Man who Killed Lincoln
Philip Van Doren Stern
The Annotated Walden: Walden
The Annotated Walden: Walden
Henry David Thoreau, Philip Van Doren Stern

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