Jacob Riis

[Fact 1]:

Christmas Stories. New York: Macmillan, 1923.

[Fact 2]: After letting her begin an honest and evocative biographical sketch over several pages titled "Elizabeth Tells Her Story", Riis decided his wife had had enough of the stage: "I cut the rest of it off, because I am the editor and want to begin again here myself, and what is the use of being an editor unless you can cut 'copy?' Also, it is not good for woman to allow her to say too much."Riis, The Making of an American , p.

[Fact 3]: Its publication brought an invitation to expand the material into an entire book.Riis had already been thinking of writing a book, and went straight to work on it, during nights.

[Fact 4]: He was sitting outside the Cooper Institute one day when the principal of the school where he had earlier learned telegraphy happened to notice him and said that if he had nothing better to do then the New York News Association was looking for a trainee.

[Fact 5]: The result was seriously Mulberry Street.Riis accumulated a supply of photographs and attempted to submit illustrated essays to magazines.

[Fact 6]: 166.

How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.

The Children of the Poor. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892.

[Fact 7]: 26-27 He was most successful as a salesman, particularly of flatirons and fluting irons, rising to sales representative for Illinois.

[Fact 8]: 27-28.Riis's first team soon tired of the late hours, and Riis had to find other help.