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Jacob A. Riis

Born

in Ribe, Denmark

May 03, 1849

Died

May 26, 1914

Genre

Journalism, Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Photography

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Reports, including How the Other Half Lives (1890), of Danish-born American journalist and reformer Jacob August Riis on living conditions in city slums led to improvements in housing and education.

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 Charles Dickens and James Fennimore Cooper; his works exhibit the story-telling skills, acquired under the tutelage of many English-speaking writers.

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	How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York 3.72 avg rating — 3,213 ratings — published 1890 — 371 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City 3.84 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1897	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Battle with the Slum 3.73 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1902 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Making of an American 3.92 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1901 — 192 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Is there a Santa Claus? 3.52 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1904 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Children of the Tenements 3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1897 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Children of the Poor 3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2001 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nibsy's Christmas (Short Story Index Reprint Series) 3.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1893 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neighbors Life Stories of the Other Half 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2006 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1900 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
― Jacob A. Riis

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“Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!”
― Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives

tags: 1890, work

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“In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.”
― Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives: A Norton Critical Edition

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