dots-menu
×
Home  »  library  »  BIOS  »  Horatio Alger (1832–1899)

C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Horatio Alger (1832–1899)

Alger, Horatio. An American writer of juvenile books; born at Revere, MA, Jan. 13, 1832. Graduated from Harvard in 1852, settled in New York in 1866, and became interested in the condition of self-supporting boys, described in his series of more than fifty books, including ‘Ragged Dick,’ ‘Tattered Tom,’ ‘Luck and Pluck,’ which became very popular. Other works: ‘Nothing to Do: A Tilt at our Best Society,’ a poem (1857); ‘Helen Ford,’ a novel (1860); a series of juvenile biographies of Webster, Lincoln, Garfield, etc.; and ‘The Young Salesman’ (1896). He died in 1899.