Written in the third person, this autobiography follows a boy who arrived from the Netherlands knowing no English, sold newspapers and wrote to famous men for their autographs, and rose to edit the Ladies’ Home Journal for thirty years. Along the way he visits Longfellow, Emerson, Kate Greenaway and presidents, and reflects candidly on what America gave him and what it lacked.
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for biography, and a classic of the American immigrant success story. Download the free EPUB.