Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger Jr.was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many young-adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth13 January 1832
CityChelsea, MA
CountryUnited States of America