Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren, now considered one of America's finest novelists, was born in Detroit in 1909, and lived most of his life in Chicago. His jobs included migrant worker, journalist, and medical worker. He is the author of five novels, including The Man with the Golden Arm, which was the winner of the first National Book Award. Algren died in 1981.
Nelson Algren
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A Walk on the Wild Side
Nelson Algren; Foreword by Russell Banks
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk in the Wild Side has found a place...
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