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'''Horatio Alger Jr.''' (1832 - 1899) was born on Friday the 13th of January, 1832 in Chelsea, [[Massachusetts]], the oldest of five children. He was the [[author]] of over 100 books for boys in which the heroes rose from rags to riches through virtue and hard work.  His mother, Olive Alger, was the daughter of a wealthy merchant. His father, Horatio Alger Sr. was a Unitarian Minister.

'''Horatio Alger Jr.''' (1832 - 1899) was born on Friday the 13th of January, 1832 in Chelsea, [[Massachusetts]], the oldest of five children. He was the [[author]] of over 100 books for boys in which the heroes rose from rags to riches through virtue and hard work.  His mother, Olive Alger, was the daughter of a wealthy merchant. His father, Horatio Alger Sr. was a Unitarian Minister.

What most people don’t know is that Horatio Alger was a lapsed Unitarian Minister, dismissed from his congregation after being falsely accused of “sexual improprieties".  After contemplating suicide, Alger went on to write more than 100 books, most of of which were rags-to-riches stories about young men who overcame adversity through hard work and a commitment to moral living. In an ironic twist of fate, the books never sold well during Alger’s lifetime, but became bestsellers after his death, and are still widely read and quoted even now, more than a hundred years after his death. Even in his own death, and writing success after death, Alger was himself ultimately a story of redemption himself.

What most people don’t know is that Horatio Alger was a lapsed Unitarian Minister, dismissed from his congregation after being falsely accused of “sexual improprieties".  After contemplating suicide, Alger went on to write more than 100 books, most of of which were rags-to-riches stories about young men who overcame adversity through hard work and a commitment to moral living. In an ironic twist of fate, the books never sold well during Alger’s lifetime, but became bestsellers after his death, and are still widely read and quoted even now, more than a hundred years after his death. Even in his own death, and writing success after death, Alger was himself ultimately a story of redemption himself.

 

== Bibliography ==

== Bibliography ==

* [[Abraham Lincoln]]: the Backwoods Boy; or, How A Young Rail-Splitter Became President (1883)

* [[Abraham Lincoln]]: the Backwoods Boy; or, How A Young Rail-Splitter Became President (1883)