It was after his death that Alger’s derivative tales truly took off, selling millions of volumes thanks to a reissuing of cheap editions of his books, wrote historians Gary Scharnhorst and Jack ...

Elder Joey Spencer has written a novel, “From the Bench to the Board” detailing his experiences living on the street as a ...

Butler County Treasurer Nancy Nix, a close friend of Vance’s who hosted a fundraiser when he ran successfully for senate, once called him “a rags to riches ... selling book and in the ...

On her website she wrote that she had always known she would be a book author. "As soon as I knew what writers were, I wanted to be one. I've got the perfect temperament for a writer; perfectly ...

After the books fell out of print again in the 1920s, they began to be remembered as tales of economic triumph and their protagonists as budding business tycoons. The stories took on a new cast ...