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This Author, Famous for His Rags-to-Riches Stories, Forever Shaped How We Talk About the American Dream
Alger moved to New York City and began writing prolifically. His breakout novel, Ragged Dick, opens with the titular shoe shiner waking up in “a wooden box half full of straw,” his bed on the ...
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who wrote more than 100 novels about poor boys who work hard to become rich?
1867, Horatio Alger's story of Ragged Dick was serialized in Student and Schoolmate , but its popularity led him to publish it as a novel in 1877. In the real world, Horatio Alger Jr. wrote many ...