biography
pronunciation:
[aljer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1832–99)
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| biography:
| Writer and clergyman, born in Revere, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Harvard, became a Unitarian minister, and wrote highly successful boys' adventure stories on poor-boy-makes-good themes, such as Ragged Dick (1867) and From Canal Boy to President (1881). |
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