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Alger, Horatio

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From: The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana
Date: 19940101
Author:Tad Tuleja

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Alger, Horatio

Alger, Horatio (1834-99) Writer. A Massachusetts-born Unitarian minister, Alger moved to New York in 1866 and the next year had his first literary success with the serialized novel "Ragged Dick". Its endearing formula--poor but industrious lad makes good--sustained Alger through over one hundred books, including the best-selling " Luck and Pluck" (1869) and "Tattered Tom" (1871); it also contributed to the national myth of the self-made man. Hence "Horatio Alger story" for any rags-to-riches tale.

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