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Who was Horatio Alger?

Horatio Alger, Jr. was an American author (1832-1899). Alger produced the one of the first boys" adventure series. Alger published over 118 novels in book form. Another 280 novels were produced in magazines along with more than five hundred short stories. His young heroes succeed through a mixture of pluck and luck. They are lucky, in part, because they deserve to be lucky. A given hero may appear in several books, e.g., "Ragged Dick," but the books do not have a common set of characters. Regardless of their names, the heroes are remarkably similar.

Horatio Alger, Jr. was the oldest of five children of a debt-ridden New England, Unitarian minister. He was very frail. He was under weight and undersized, suffered from bronchial asthma, and near sightedness. Because of his poor health, the family deferred his introduction to the alphabet and reading until he was six years old. He started formal school at age 10 and achieved Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard. He was ranked eighth in a class of 89. He volunteered for the union army three times and was rejected three times because of his asthma and small size (just over five feet and about 120 pounds).

Horatio Alger, Jr. taught school or tutored school children for a good part of his life. His most famous student is Benjamin Cardozo who went on to be a Supreme Court justice.

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