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1856 - Bertha's Christmas Vision. An Autumn Sheaf [F,CH]
1857 - Nothing To Do: A Tilt at Our Best Society (anonymous) [F,CH]
1864 - Frank's Campaign; or, What Boys can do on the Farm for the Camp [F,CH]
1865 - Paul Prescott's Charge. A Story For Boys [F,CH]
1866 - Helen Ford [F,CH]
1866 - Timothy Crump's Ward; or, The New Years Loan, And What Became of It. (anonymous) [F,CH]
1866 - Charlie Codman's Cruise. A Story for Boys [F,CH]
1868 - Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York With the Bootblacks [F,CH]
1868 - Fame and Fortune; or, The Progress of Richard Hunter [F,CH]
1869 - Luck and Pluck; or, John Oakley's Inheritance [F,CH]
1869 - Mark the Match Boy; or, Richard Hunter's Ward [F,CH]
1869 - Rough and Ready; or, Life Among the New York Newsboys [F,CH]
1869 - Ralph Raymond's Heir; or, The Merchant's Crime (Arthur Hamilton) [F,CH]
1870 - Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves. [F,CH]
1870 - Rufus and Rose; or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready [F,CH]
1870 - Sink or Swim; or, Harry Raymond's Resolve [F,CH]
1871 - Paul the Peddler; or, The Adventures of a Young Street Merchant [F,CH]
1871 - Strong and Steady; or, Paddle Your Own Canoe [F,CH]
1871 - Tattered Tom; or, The Story of a Street Arab [F,CH]
1872 - Phil the Fiddler; or, The Story of a Young Street Musician [F,CH]
1872 - Slow and Sure; or, From the Street to the Shop [F,CH]
1872 - Strive and Succeed; or, The Progress of Walter Conrad [F,CH]
1873 - Bound to Rise; or, Harry Walton's Motto [F,CH]
1873 - Try and Trust; or, The Story of a Bound Boy [F,CH]
1874 - Brave and Bold; or, The Fortunes of a Factory Boy [F,CH]
1874 - Julius; or, The Street Boy out West [F,CH]
1874 - Risen from the Ranks; or, Harry Walton's Success [F,CH]
1875 - Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving with other Ballads and Poems [F,CH]
1875 - Herbert Carter's Legacy; or, The Inventor's Son [F,CH]
1875 - Jack's Ward; or, The Boy Guardian [F,CH]
1875 - Seeking His Fortune, And Other Dialouges [F,CH]
1875 - The Young Outlaw; or, Adrift In The Streets [F,CH]
1876 - Sam's Chance; and How He Improved It [F,CH]
1876 - Shifting for Himself; or, Gilbert Greyson's Fortune's [F,CH]
1877 - Wait and Hope; or, Ben Bradford's Motto [F,CH]
1877 - Life of Edwin Forrest (William Rounseville Alger) [F,CH]
1877 - The New Schoolma'am; or, A Summer in North Sparta (anonymous) [F,CH]
1878 - The Western Boy; or, The Road to Success [F,CH]
1878 - The Young Adventurer; or, Tom's Trip Across the Plains [F,CH]
1879 - The Telegraph Boy [F,CH]
1879 - The Young Miner; or, Tom Nelson in California [F,CH]
1880 - Tony the Hero [F,CH]
1880 - The Young Explorer; or, Among the Sierras [F,CH]
1881 - From Canal Boy to President; or, The Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield [F,CH]
1882 - Ben's Nugget; or, A Boy's Search for Fortune. [F,CH]
1882 - From Farm Boy to Senator: Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel Webster [F,CH]
1883 - Abraham Lincoln: The Backwoods Boy; or, How a Young Rail Splitter became President [F,CH]
1883 - The Train Boy [F,CH]
1883 - The Young Circus Rider; or, The Mystery of Robert Rudd [F,CH]
1884 - Dan, the Detective [F,CH]
1884 - Do and Dare; or A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune [F,CH]
1885 - Hector's Inheritance; or, The Boys of Smith Institute [F,CH]
1886 - Helping Himself; or, Grant Thornton's Ambition [F,CH]
1887 - Frank Fowler, The Cash Boy [F,CH]
1887 - Joe's Luck; or, A Boy's Adventures in California [F,CH]
1887 - Number 91; or, The Adventures of a New York Telegraph Boy (Arthur Lee Putnam) [F,CH]
1887 - The Store Boy; or, The Fortunes of Ben Barclay [F,CH]
1888 - The Errand Boy; or, How Phil Brent Won Success [F,CH]
1888 - Bob Burton; or, The Young Ranchman of the Missouri [F,CH]
1888 - Tom Temple's Career [F,CH]
1888 - Tom Thatcher's Fortune [F,CH]
1888 - Tom Tracy [F,CH]
1888 - The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus [F,CH]
1889 - Luke Walton; or, The Chicago Newsboy [F,CH]
1890 - The Erie Train Boy [F,CH]
1890 - $500; or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret U.S. Book Company
1890 - Mark Stanton [F,CH]
1890 - Ned Newton; or, The Fortunes of a New York Bootblack [F,CH]
1890 - A New York Boy [F,CH]
1890 - The Odds Against Him; or, Carl Crawford's Experience [F,CH]
1890 - Struggling Upward; or, Luke Larkin's Luck [F,CH]
1891 - Dean Dunham; or, The Waterford Mystery [F,CH]
1892 - The Young Boatman of Pine Point [F,CH]
1892 - Ralph Raymond's Heir [F,CH]
1892 - Digging For Gold. A Story of California [F,CH]
1893 - Facing the World; or, The Haps and Mishaps of Harry Vane [F,CH]
1893 - In a New World; or, Among the Gold-Fields of Australia [F,CH]
1894 - Only an Irish Boy; or, Andy Burke's Fortunes and Misfortunes [F,CH]
1894 - Victor Vane, The Young Secretary [F,CH]
1895 - Adrift in the City; or, Oliver Conrad's Plucky Fight. [F,CH]
1895 - The Disagreeable Woman; A Social Mystery (Julian Starr) [F,CH]
1896 - Frank Hunter's Peril [F,CH]
1896 - The Young Salesman [F,CH]
1897 - Frank and Fearless; or, The Fortunes of Jasper Kent [F,CH]
1897 - Walter Sherwood's Probation [F,CH]
1898 - A Boy's Fortune; or, The Strange Adventures of Ben Baker [F,CH]
1898 - The Young Bank Messenger [F,CH]
1899 - Mark Mason's Victory; or, The Trials and Triumphs of a Telegraph Boy [F,CH]
1899 - Jed, the Poorhouse Boy [F,CH]
1899 - Silas Snobden's Office Boy [F,CH]
1899 - Rupert's Ambition [F,CH]
1900 - A Debt of Honor. The Story of Gerald Lane's Success in the Far West [F,CH]
1900 - Falling in With Fortune; or, The Experiences of a Young Secretary [F,CH]
1900 - Out for Business; or, Robert Frost's Strange Career [F,CH]
1901 - Ben Bruce. Scenes in the Life of a Bowery Newsboy [F,CH]
1901 - Lester's Luck [F,CH]
1901 - Making His Mark [F,CH]
1901 - Nelson the Newsboy; or, Afloat in New York [F,CH]
1901 - Tom Brace: Who He Was and How He Fared [F,CH]
1901 - Young Captain Jack; or, The Son of a Soldier [F,CH]
1902 - Andy Grant's Pluck [F,CH]
1902 - A Rolling Stone; or, The Adventures of a Wanderer [F,CH]
1902 - Tom Turner's Legacy [F,CH]
1902 - Striving for Fortune; or, Walter Griffith's Trials and Successes [F,CH]
1902 - The World Before Him [F,CH]
1903 - Bernard Brooks' Adventures. The Story of a Brave Boy's Trials [F,CH]
1903 - Chester Rand; or, A New Path to Fortune [F,CH]
1903 - Forging Ahead [F,CH]
1904 - Adrift in New York: or, Tom and Florence Braving the World [F,CH]
1904 - Finding a Fortune [F,CH]
1904 - Jerry the Backwoods Boy; or, The Parkhurst Treasure [F,CH]
1904 - Lost at Sea; or, Robert Roscoe's Strange Cruise [F,CH]
1905 - From Farm to Fortune; or Nat Nason's Strange Experience [F,CH]
1905 - Mark Manning's Mission. The Story of a Shoe Factory Boy [F,CH]
1905 - The Young Book Agent; or, Frank Hardy's Road to Success [F,CH]
1906 - Joe the Hotel Boy; or, Winning Out By Pluck [F,CH]
1906 - Randy of the River; or, The Adventures of a Young Deckhand [F,CH]
1906 - Young Musician [F,CH]
1907 - In Search of Treasure. The Story of Guy's Eventful Voyage [F,CH]
1908 - Wait and Win. The Story of Jack Drummond's Pluck [F,CH]
1908 - Ben Logan's Triumph; or, The Boys of Boxwood Academy [F,CH]
1910 - Robert Coverdale's Struggle; or, On the Wave of Success [F,CH]
1973 - Silas Snobden's Office Boy [F,CH]
1974 - Cast Upon the Breakers [F,CH]
1978 - Hugo, the Deformed [F,CH]
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Authored more than 120 books for young people.
Born in Revere, Massachusetts, on January 13, 1832.
Son of a Unitarian church pastor.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard.
Studied under Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as a poet.
Worked as a teacher
Journalist for the Boston Transcript and the New York Sun.
Suffered asthma.
Rejected by the Union Army
Took up a ministry on Cape Cod.
Died in 1899 of lung and heart ailments at the age of 67.
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Date of birth: January 13, 1832
Place of birth: Revere, Massachusetts
Date of death: 1898
Genre: American Novelist and Children's Author
Father's name: Horatio Alger, Sr.
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