Talk:Horatio Alger, Jr.
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According to my history text book, Alger actually became quite rich. Edit? American History: A survey - Alan Brinkley
[edit] Mayes' Biography
Half the information in this article appears to be based off of Mayes' fictional account of Alger's life, Horatio Alger: A Biography Without a Hero. Mayes himself has admitted that almost the entire biography was a hoax and pure conjecture. This article needs some major revising using a reliable source such as a Carol Nackenoff's Horatio Alger biography.
I will see if I can help in this regard...
128.103.151.106 16:59, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
- I cleaned it up quite a bit, but the whole "biography" section really needs to be rewritten from a reputable source or two. Also, I strongly suspect the bibliography has been tainted by Mayes titles, but I can't find a list of fake titles anywhere. If anyone finds one, some of the fake titles should be added under the "Mayes biography" section. --Quuxplusone 07:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
There seems to be a problem in that, according to the works timeline, he continued producing books for 7 years or so after his death. -- Larry Bailey 18:27, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- According to [1], many of Alger's magazine serials were reprinted in book form, under different titles, after his death. Many of the "posthumous" books probably fall into this category. For example: Finding a Fortune (1904) is the same work as The Tin Box: or, Harry Gilbert's Fortune (1882). The 1899 death date seems to be correct. I know Mayes gave a wrong death date, but I don't know what it was. --Quuxplusone 06:05, 8 October 2006 (UTC)DID U KNOW THAT:MILEY CYRUS AS HANNAH MONTANA ROCKS I AM HER DUH LOSERS
I edited some of the text of the biography to make it read cleaner, definitely needs to be re-drafted.
[edit] Works Section
This section needs to cleaned, I think the wiki links should be removed and only added when someone writes an article on a specific work. There were around 7 links, some were pointing to other peoples' works, and one was pointing to a basketball player. --White Pony |
It might be worth noting that it was not Alger's work but the times (and publishers) that have also led to his "rags to riches" reputation. His work became confused in the public imagination with the rise of Carnegie and Rockefeller and others. I believe his publishers (and copyright laws at the time may have led to many unauthorized publications) encouraged this confusion with their jacket art and language.
[edit] redirect
I'm not sure how to do it, but someone should make a redirect page from Horaito Alger to this page. I've always known him as horaito alger (without the jr.) and I'm sure many others do as well. 74.140.50.141 18:45, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
