- He was a prolific 19th-century American author
| Real name: | Horatio Alger Jr. | | Born: | 13 January 1832 Comment | | When did Horatio Alger die? / Died | 18 July 1899 | | How many years did Horatio Alger live? / Lived | 67 years | | Where was Horatio Alger born? | Chelsea, Massachusetts, US | | Where did Horatio Alger die? / Deathplace | Natick, Massachusetts, US | | Zodiac sign: | Capricorn |
Horatio Alger Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is Horatio Alger worth? | Under review
| | Nationality: | American |
Who was Horatio Alger? / Facts
- 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
- All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth": a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty
- Often it is not hard work that rescues the boy from his fate but rather some extraordinary act of bravery or honesty
- The boy might return a large sum of lost money or rescue someone from an overturned carriage
- This brings the boy—and his plight—to the attention of a wealthy individual
- Alger secured his literary niche in 1868 with the publication of his fourth book, Ragged Dick, the story of a poor bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability
- This novel was a huge success
- His many books that followed were essentially variations on Ragged Dick and featured casts of stock characters: the valiant hard-working, honest youth, the noble mysterious stranger, the snobbish youth, and the evil, greedy squire
- In the 1870s, Alger's fiction was growing stale
- His publisher suggested he tour the American West for fresh material to incorporate into his fiction
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Education
- Harvard College
- Harvard University
- Harvard Divinity School
Quotes
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No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
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The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
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