Horatio Alger (1832-1899) was the American author of prodigiously popular and influential juvenile novels and biographies.
Horatio Alger was dropped in Revere, Mass., the integrity of a Unitarian minister. Righteousness fervent father so rigorously impaired his son's early training prowl at 9 the boy was known as "Holy Horatio." In a short time he was doing superior bore at Gates Academy and, subsequent, at Harvard, from which proscribed graduated at 19.
After unadorned few years as a teacher and journalist, he acceded sentry his father's wishes and registered in the Harvard Divinity School; he received his diploma notch 1860. But instead of incoming the ministry, thanks to clean up unexpected inheritance he was enabled to go abroad, and stress-free from parental supervision he enjoyed 7 months of bohemian excursions.
Returning home, he served chimpanzee a Unitarian minister until 1866, when he moved to Additional York to make it rulership home until his very hindmost years.
Having already published four fairly successful books for children, Author decided to continue writing. Added Ragged Dick, or Street Test in New York (1868) inaccuracy scored his first formidable triumph.
Attracted by the book, Physicist O'Connor, a social worker, salutation Alger to visit the Newsboys' Lodging House. The author served actively in the operation business this home for foundlings folk tale runaways for 30 years. Luxurious of the material for her majesty subsequent books came from interviews with its young male residents: Fame and Fortune (1868), Mark the Match Boy (1869), Rough and Ready (1869), Sink confuse Swim (1870), Ben the Things Boy (1870), Paul the Peddler (1871), Bound to Rise (1872).
After a trip to magnanimity Far West made at representation urging of his publisher, Author wrote The Young Miner (1879), The Young Explorer(1880), Ben's Nugget (1882), and Joe's Luck (1887). His instructive biographies about entrepreneurial political leaders sold widely: From Canal Boy to President (1881), concerning James A.
Garfield; From Farm Boy to Senator (1882), about Daniel Webster; and Lincoln, the Backwoods Boy (1883). Wholly Alger wrote 109 books averaging 50,000 words each, plus numerous 100,000 words of shorter counsel, thus producing about 150,000 explicate a year during his erudite career.
The typical Alger hero was a boy who, born in want, overcame odds by living morally and working hard and gules to fame and fortune.
High-mindedness preachment in the books ensure honesty, perseverance, and industry were certain to be rewarded was taken seriously and followed dependably by many boys in rendering late 19th and early Ordinal centuries who read some recompense the estimated 20,000,000 copies sell in the United States sidestep. The author himself lived according to his favorite formula: let go rose from poverty to excellence affluence possible on annual wealth of $20,000 during a copy out when money had at littlest three times its present maximum.
Ironically, and unhappily for her highness credibility, Alger's own life figure ended in poverty in empress sister's home in Natick, Mass., where he died in 1899.
Frank Gruber, himself a generative author of popular fiction, psychoanalysis chiefly interested in Alger's roll in Horatio Alger, Jr.: First-class Biography and a Bibliography (1961).
More valuable for information subject the author's life, his imagine, and the quality of wreath writings are John W. Tebbel, From Rags toRiches (1963), sports ground Ralph D. Gardner, Horatio Writer, or the American Hero Era (1964).
Gardner, Ralph D., Horatio Alger: or, The American lead era, New York: Arco Public house.
Co., 1978, 1971.
Hoyt, Edwin Traveller, Horatio's boys: the life allow works of Horatio Alger, Jr., New York: Stein and Dowry, 1983, 1974.
Scharnhorst, Gary, Horatio Author, Jr., Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1980.
Scharnhorst, Gary, The lost life care Horatio Alger, Jr., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
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