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Author Description Reports, including <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882203.How_the_Other_Half_Lives" title="How the Other Half Lives" rel="nofollow noopener">How the Other Half Lives</a> </i> (1890), of Danish-born American journalist and reformer <b>Jacob August Riis</b> on living conditions in city slums led to improvements in housing and education.<br /><br />This Christian helped the impoverished in city of New York; much of his writing focused on those needy. In his youth in Denmark, he read <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/239579.Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens" rel="nofollow noopener">Charles Dickens</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/48214377.James_Fennimore_Cooper" title="James Fennimore Cooper" rel="nofollow noopener">James Fennimore Cooper</a>; his works exhibit the story-telling skills, acquired under the tutelage of many English-speaking writers. <br /><br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Riis">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Riis</a><br />

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