This nineteenth century American writer was a Unitarian minister for two years and helped manage a newsboy home for thirty years.
This nineteenth century American writer was a Unitarian minister for two years and helped manage a newsboy home for thirty years. His fifth children's book became his first successful one and the mould for over one hundred dime novels featuring similar hero characters. Although the author adapted his namesake hero to Presidents Garfield and Lincoln, Mark Twain still attacked this man's "rags to riches" stories, believing them far too improbable. FTP, identify this author of Ragged Dick, or Street Life in New York.          |
This nineteenth century American writer was a Unitarian minister for two years and helped manage a newsboy home for thirty years.
Horatio {Alger} Jr.