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About Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger Jr. was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to middle-class security and comfort through good works. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States from 1868 through to his death in 1899.
Everything about Horatio Alger →- Occupation
- writer, novelist, children's writer, journalist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 13, 1832, 1832, January 13, 1834
- Died
- July 18, 1899, 1899