Author for children Horatio Alger Jr.

Horatio Alger Jr.

Living place: Chelsea

Birthday: 13-1-1832

Global rank: #57334

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Who is Author for children Horatio Alger Jr.?
Author of children's literature whose rag-to-rich novels include the popular 1868 work, Ragged Dick. His novels for adults include Marie Bertrand and Timothy Crump Ward, and he also published several poems.
He published an 1881 biography of President James A. Garfield.

Young / Before famous

He entered Harvard University in the class of 1852. He briefly attended Harvard's Divinity School before accepting an editorial position with the Boston Daily Advertiser.

Family life info

He was born in Massachusetts to a General Unitarian father. In the early 1880s, he unofficially adopted two street boys, Charlie Davis and John Downie.

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He and Mark Twain both wrote novels about young men's great adventures.

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When was Author for children Horatio Alger Jr. born?
Horatio Alger Jr. was born in 13-1-1832, death year is , at the age of 192.
Where is Author for children Horatio Alger Jr.'s birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Horatio Alger Jr. was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts- United States. Là Author for children, whose Zodiac is Capricorn, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Horatio Alger Jr.'s global rank is 57334 and whose rank is 176 in list of famous Author for children.
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Events in 1832 and 13-1

Birthday Horatio Alger Jr. (13-1) in history

  • Day 13-1 year 1898: French writer Emile Zola published his "J'Accuse" letter, accusing the French of a cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus treason case.
  • Day 13-1 year 1941: Novelist James Joyce died in Zurich.
  • Day 13-1 year 1990: Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the first elected African-American governor in the United States.
  • Day 13-1 year 1999: Michael Jordan announced his second retirement from the NBA. He would "unretire" again in 2001.
  • Day 13-1 year 2002: After 17,162 performances, The Fantasticks ended its almost 42-year off-Broadway run.
  • Day 13-1 year 2004: Joseph Darby, a U.S. soldier at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, reported U.S. abuses of Iraqi prisoners to the Army's Criminal Investigations Division..
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