Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award [2] and was adapted as …

Nelson Algren (born March 28, 1909, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.—died May 9, 1981, Sag Harbor, New York) was an American writer whose novels of the poor are lifted from routine naturalism by his vision of …

May 10, 1981 · Nelson Algren, the novelist and short-story writer, died yesterday at the home he recently moved to in Sag Harbor, L.I., after a 30-year battle with Chicago and six years of …

Algren’s last decades were marked by poverty and obscurity. He wrote travel books such as Who Loves an American? (1963), dedicated to his long-time lover, Simone de Beauvoir, and Notes from a Sea …

Apr 6, 2024 · We promote Algren’s values and bring about the recognition he was so consistently denied throughout his life. Ernest Hemingway called him one of America’s greatest novelists, second only to …

Nelson Algren was an American writer. He may be best known for The Man with the Golden Arm, a 1949 novel that won the National Book Award.

People note American writer Nelson Algren for his novels, including The Man with the Golden Arm (1949), about the pride and longings of impoverished people. Born of Swedish-immigrant parents, …

Algren won the first National Book Award in 1950 for The Man with the Golden Arm, a novel set on Chicago’s Northwest Side and, like much of his work, concerned with the city’s quasi-criminal …

The Man with the Golden Arm is a novel by Nelson Algren, published by Doubleday in November 1949. One of the seminal novels of post-World War II American letters, The Man with the Golden Arm is …

Nelson Algren wrote five novels, two collections of short stories, several road books, and countless other stories, reviews, and essays along with the prose poem Chicago: City on the Make. His work …