2 Quotes & Sayings By Horatio Alger

Horatio Alger (1834-1899) was born in New York City. Learning disabilities prevented him from attaining a higher education, but he became an exceptional self-educated man, who learned to write by dictating his stories to a stenographer. As a child Alger had become enmeshed in the thievery and prostitution of the streets of New York. He turned his life around and began writing for penny or dime newspapers Read more