Thread:T.I.M.E.poral/@comment-24577221-20190830232330

Just so you know... Horatio Alger was quite a famous author of books targeted at boys, popular from the later 1860s to the 1920s or thereabouts. They're now seen as rather trite and repetitive, but the "Horatio Alger story" is a distinctive type of rags-to-riches trope.

He, his writing, and his name aren't so well known now, of course. :-) 