January 13 - Horatio Alger

Horatio Alger, born this day in 1832, was a prolific 19th-century American author, most famous for his novels following the adventures of bootblacks, newsboys, peddlers, buskers, and other impoverished children in their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of respectable middle-class security and comfort. His novels were hugely popular in their day.

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The poem I’m reading is “Carving a Name”.

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