Hoffer was the son of German immigrants, and by the age of five, could read in both German and English. At age seven, and for unknown reasons, Hoffer went blind. His eyesight inexplicably returned when he was fifteen. Fearing he would again go blind, he seized upon the opportunity to read as much as he could for as long as he could. His eyesight remained, but Hoffer never abandoned his habit of voracious reading. He was completely self-educated. Through-out his twenties and thirties, he did manual labor. He was working as a longshoreman when he started to write.
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