horatio alger

     

This chronicler of boys rising from poverty never wrote the major novel he planned

Trivia about horatio alger

  • Among his many books for boys are the Ragged Dick and Tattered Tom series
  • Although his name is now a synonym for rags-to-riches success, this 19th c. author never achieved that success
  • In 1867 the first of this author's more than 100 rags-to-riches tales, "Ragged Dick", was published
  • As well as novels, he wrote rags-to-riches nonfiction like the James Garfield biography "From Canal Boy to President"

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