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| | Horatio Alger |
 | | Horatio's parents were Olive Augusta Fenno and Horatio Alger, Sr., a Unitarian minister. |
 | | Ragged Dick's plot and character development set the pattern Alger followed in more than one hundred additional novels, including Fame and Fortune, 1869 (a sequel with the same character); Rough and Ready, 1869; Ben, the Luggage Boy, 1870; Paul, the Peddlar, 1871; Tattered Tom, 1871; and Strive and Succeed, 1871. |
 | | Horatio did most of the research and writing while William penned the chapters dealing with the history of the American theater. |
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