name: Jacob A. Riis
birth_date: 1849-05-03 00:00:00
death_date: 1914-05-26 00:00:00
genres: Arts & Photography, Journalism, Biographies & Memoirs
avg_rating: 3.72
ratings_count: 3554
about: 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Riis 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Riis ...more