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Horatio Alger

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Horatio-Alger.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/13/2000 Horatio Alger Transcript Today is the birthday of Horatio Alger, a prolific nineteenth century writer of novels for boys which became known as the “rags to riches” stories. Alger had been writing and publishing boy’s stories in magazines for ten years when, in […]