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	Nelson Algren
		Nelson Ahlgren Abraham was born in Detroit as the youngest of three siblings, but he grew up in Chicago in a poor immigrant neighborhood on the South Side, where his parents moved when he was three.
		Algren's grandfarher, whom he never saw, was a Swedish immigrant, who took the Old Testament at its literal truth, converted to Judaism and changed his name to Isaac Ben Abraham.
		Algren's financial situation improved for a period when he was aided by an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and by a grant from Chicago's Newberry Library.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /nalgren.htm (1666 words)

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		Born in Detroit and named Nelson Ahlgren Abraham, he moved to Chicago with his parents at the age of three to live in a poor immigrant neighbourhood on the South Side.
		Algren was educated in Chicago's public schools and went on to study journalism at the University of Illinois, graduating during the Great Depression in 1931.
		Algren was linked to Simone de Beauvoir and they travelled to Latin America together in 1949.
	www.wapipedia.com /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Nelson_Algren (378 words)

	Nelson Algren
		Nelson Ahlgren Abraham was born in Detroit as the youngest of three siblings, but he grew up in Chicago in a poor immigrant neighborhood on the South Side, where his parents moved when he was three.
		Algren's grandfarher, whom he never saw, was a Swedish immigrant, who took the Old Testament at its literal truth, converted to Judaism and changed his name to Isaac Ben Abraham.
		Algren's financial situation improved for a period when he was aided by an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and by a grant from Chicago's Newberry Library.
	kirjasto.sci.fi /nalgren.htm (1667 words)

	Nelson Algren . Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan, Algren moved to Chicago, Illinois, with his parents at the age of three to live in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on the South Side.
		Algren was educated in Chicago's public schools, graduated from Hibbard High School (now Roosevelt), and went on to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in journalism during the Great Depression in 1931.
		Nonconformity, published in 1994, presents Algren's side of the debacle that was the 1956 film adaptation of "Golden Arm." Nonconformity also expresses the belief system behind Algren's writing, not to mention a call to writers everywhere to investigate the dark and represent the ignored.
	www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/Nelson_Algren (1021 words)

	Nelson Algren - Chicago: City on the Make
		Because they connect to Sandburg's personifications of Chicago, Algren's characters stand in for the city as a whole; their actions reveal not only their individual character but the urban character of the whole city.
		Algren's Chicago also depends on other literary sources, and this thesis presents original research showing that Algren draws upon poetry of New York to paint his picture of Chicago.
		Algren alters Sandburg's Chicago through an elaborate system of reference to Ben Maddow's 1940 poem of New York, "The City," and Algren's controlling metaphor follows the literary ethic of another New York poet: Walt Whitman.
	home.uchicago.edu /~jmcmahon/Education5.html (308 words)

	Nelson Algren - Glasgledius (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nelson Algren was born in Detroit and named Nelson Ahlgren Abraham.
		Algren was educated in Chicago's public schools and went on to study journalism at the University of Illinois, graduating during the Depression in 1931.
		Algren was linked to Simone de Beauvior and they tavelled to Latin America together in 1949.
	www.glasglow.com /E2/ne/Nelson_Algren.html (326 words)

	Nelson Algren Committee
		For Nelson Algren, Chicago waits eternally to expiate the sin of its beginnings in the Haymarket show trial and the judicial murder of the Haymarket victims, hanged to stave off the fight for the Labor Union and the eight-hour day.
		The answers lie in the carefully buried Past, victim, as Algren predicted, of the media's endless rewrite in a country continually riven by racism, inequality, violence and a rapacity that leaves a Quentin Tarantino salivating and Progressives wishing they'd been born elsewhere.
		Algren's generation is to be the last allowed to take this fact seriously, as something shameful to be acted upon.
	www.nelsonalgren.org (1413 words)

	The Chicago Blog: Nelson Algren birthday party
		Algren (1909-1981), author of Chicago: City on the Make, is being honored by the Nelson Algren Committee, a group dedicated to promoting interest in Algren, who "made Chicago his trade." The event will feature readings, music, a photographic exhibition, a drawing for Algren books and memorabilia, and of course, birthday cake.
		We also publish H. Donohue's Conversations with Nelson Algren, a collection of frank and often devastating conversations in which Algren reveals himself with all the gruff humor, deflating insight, honesty, and critical brilliance that marked his career.
		Algren discusses everything from his childhood to his compulsion to write to his relationship with Simone de Beauvoir.
	pressblog.uchicago.edu /2006/03/21/nelson_algren_birthday_party.html (303 words)

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		Nelson Algren: Gone on the Arfy Darfy - A discussion of Nelson Algren's use of the cryptic slang term "arfy darfy" in the Google Answers forum.
		Nelson Algren's 'Chicago: City on the Make' - A scholarly study of poetic voices in 'the best book about Chicago,' conducted for the University of Chicago by the writer Jeff McMahon.
		Nelson Algren's Secret Muse: Ben Maddow - Chicago writer Jeff McMahon describes his discovery that a little-known poem exerted a profound influence upon Nelson Algren's depiction of Chicago.
	www.francekeys.com /cgi-bin/search?&passurl=/Arts/Literature/Authors/A/Algren,_Nelson (241 words)

	Chicagoist: 98 Years of Algren
		Nelson Algren is a personal hero of mine, a writer of the backstreets before it became fashionable, a sympathetic viewer of the invisible people it takes natural disasters and cynical, fear-mongering politicians to bring to the attention of the vaguely contented, a prose composer of unimaginable poetic power.
		Algren lived among the Polish immigrants of Chicago, with rummies and chippies and junkies.
		Algren's one of the smartest observers of Chicago.
	chicagoist.com /2007/03/28/98_years_of_algren.php (907 words)

	Nelson Algren - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nelson Algren, the author of two of the seminal works of post-World War II American letters ("The Man With the Golden Arm" and "A Walk on the Wild Side") was born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham on March 28, 1909 in Detroit, Michigan, into a Jewish family.
		In truth, Algren is not a fascist, or a racist; he has tried to tell the truth, and as his later friend Kurt Vonnegut would say after his death, he knew that the poor were not the saints that sentimental writers tried to portray them, as in neo-late-Tolstoy writing.
		Algren, who was designated a litter bearer, never made rank, and despite being a college graduate, was never considered as a candidate for a commission, likely due to his left-wing political beliefs.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0019346/bio (1909 words)

	Nelson Algren - Encyclopedia.com
		Algren's Question.(fond recollections of the works of novelist Nelson Algren and the time he received the first National Book Award)
		Horvath argues that Algren held to a consistent purpose throughout...
		From Chicago: City on the Make, by Nelson Algren People of a certain age are familiar with the work of author Nelson Algren.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Algren-N.html (922 words)

	Nelson Algren Criticism
		Algren lived most of his life in Chicago and often explored in his fiction the gritty underworld of Chicago's impoverished neighborhoods.
		Although Algren is known primarily for his novels, in particular The Man with The Golden Arm (1949), winner of the National Book Award and the basis for a well-known film of the same name, his short stories have been lauded for the precision and control some critics find lacking in his longer works.
		Hemingway once called Algren one of the most notable authors of his generation, and writers and critics alike praised his realistic depiction of the underside of American society and his emphasis on social concerns.
	www.enotes.com /short-story-criticism/algren-nelson (1147 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nelson Algren (March 28, 1909 - May 9, 1981) was a famous American writer.
		In 2005 The Hold Steady mentioned Algren in the first and one of the last lines of the song "Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night" of the Separation Sunday album.
		The first line of the song is: "Nelson Algren came to Paddy at some party at the Dead End Alley/He told him what to celebrate" and towards the end the song goes "Hey Nelson Algren.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Nelson_Algren (1243 words)

	Nelson Algren, Papers, 1960-85 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nelson Algren (1909-1981) was best known for The Man With the Golden Arm (1949), which won the first National Book Award, and A Walk on the Wild Side (1956), which was a re-writing of his less-successful first book, Somebody in Boots (1935).
		Algren grew up in a poor neighborhood of Chicago which influenced his writing and provided background for some of his books.
		His characters were typically the poorest of the poor, and in his prose he bitterly depicted the hostile environment such people find themselves in, unafraid to lay blame at the feet of the capitalist society which both gave rise to this hostility and insisted on glossing over it.
	speccoll.library.kent.edu /literature/prose/algren.html (409 words)

	Nelson Algren Biography
		Born in Detroit and named Nelson Ahlgren Abraham he moved to Chicago with his parents at the age of three to live in a poor immigrant neighbourhood on the South Side.
		Algren was educated in Chicago's public schools and went on to study journalism at the University of Illinois graduating during the Great Depression in 1931.
		Algren was linked to Simone de Beauvoir and they travelled to Latin America together in 1949.
	www.ebiog.com /biography/373/nelson-algren/bio.htm (314 words)

	'A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters To Nelson Algren' by Simone de Beauvoir
		And yet it is on the issue of her love for Algren that the letters are most unsatisfying for anyone who reads them without significant biographical context.
		For his part, Algren was enchanted by “his little frog” and wanted to marry her and live together in Chicago.
		Algren was moody, undisciplined and insecure, and his literary star blazed briefly and then fizzled, while de Beauvoir moved on to enormous success.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19981129review147.asp (814 words)

	Nelson Algren Biography and List of Works - Nelson Algren Books
		Born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan, Algren moved to Chicago, Illinois, with his parents at the age of three to live in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on the South Side.
		Algren was educated in Chicago's public schools, graduated from Hibbard High School (now Roosevelt), and went on to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in journalism during the Great Depression in 1931.
		Nonconformity, published in 1994, presents Algren's side of the debacle that was the 1956 film adaptation of "Golden Arm." Nonconformity also expresses the belief system behind Algren's writing, not to mention a call to writers everywhere to investigate the dark and represent the ignored.
	www.biblio.com /authors/89/Nelson_Algren_Biography.html (911 words)

	Nelson Algren Timeline
		Nelson spent the majority of his time attending Hibbard High School, playing pool, gambling, and organizing the Uptown Arrows basketball team at Albany Park.
		Nelson used this sleepy town as inspiration for his work, “An American Diary.” Upon leaving Alpine, Nelson attempted to steal one of their many, seldom used typewriters, only to find himself the object of a month long trial.
		It was during this time that Nelson became romantically involved with Simone de Beauvoir (pictured on the right), taking her to places such as Maxwell Street or Chicago 's Bowery on West Madison, where they would immerse themselves in the lives of the prostitutes and junkies who lived there.
	www.umich.edu /~eng217/student_projects/natalieandmegan/index.html/NelsonAlgren/algrentimeline.htm (1001 words)

	Nelson Algren: Popsubculture.com's The Biography Project
		A Transatlantic Love Affair : Letters to Nelson Algren : Simone De Beauvoir, Nelson Algren
		Confronting the Horror : The Novels of Nelson Algren : James R. Giles
		Nelson Algren : A Descriptive Bibliography, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Judith Baughman
	www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/nelson_algren.html (39 words)

	Nelson Algren...- Illinois Issues, July 1990
		Chicago's Nelson Algren encountered in his city as much indifference as the bums in his novels found on the road.
		Drew's language is at times a near-imitation of what she feels Algren's perceptions may have been, but it also inconsistently bows to modern sensibilities.
		Nelson Algren, who suffered from a life incompetently and unfully lived, had great love for some people, and that transforms him from a dead Illinois writer to the somewhat beautiful man he was.
	www.lib.niu.edu /ipo/1990/ii900735.html (673 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Man with the Golden Arm: Books: Nelson Algren (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Merging a European literary senslbility with the tradition of American naturalist social protest, Algren brilliantly depicts America's third person society: a horrific state where the lower classes are exploited and dehumanised - a state where what is sordid no longer becomes shocking and abnormal as its sufferers become accustomed to their inevitable victimisation.
		A remarkable tour de force of absurdist comedy, The Man With The Golden Arm is undeniably Algren's most impressive achievement for the brilliant synthesis of his commitment to the dispossessed, his comedy, and his vision of modem urban society.
		Algren is an astounding writer with an eye for detail that is so vivid and involving that the reader is part of the story very quickly.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Man-Golden-Arm-Nelson-Algren/dp/1888363185 (1451 words)

	Nelson Algren Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Born Nelson Algren Abraham of Jewish, Swedish, and German ancestry in Detroit on March 28, 1909, he grew up in Chicago after his father, a machinist, moved his family there when Nelson was three years old.
		The night Algren met de Beauvoir, he took her to a seedy bar in the Chicago Bowery where they watched drunken old men and women dance to a small band.
		Algren's last novel, The Devil's Stocking (1983), about a fl boxer accused of a triple homicide and based on the life of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, was published posthumously.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/nelson-algren (1070 words)

	Algren's Eye (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Algren begins to write seriously in the 30's and saw the photos of Margaret Bourke White, Walker Evans, Bernice Abbot, Steiglitz and Weston.Algren meets Stephen Deutch in the early 60's and the two became friends.
		Algren's long friendship with Art Shay produced Shay's, "Nelson Algren's Chicago," which is the best document we have of his world.
		Algren never forgot the Haymarket episode, and makes it part of his "Chicago: City on the Make." His emphasis on remembrance, on history, and the local amnesia informed his eye as well as his hand.
	www.nelsonalgren.org /eye.html (1202 words)

	Guide to the Nelson Algren Collection: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nelson Algren (1909-1981) is most famous as the author of The Man with the Golden Arm, a novel which won the first National Book Award ever granted (1950).
		Algren was always politically engaged with the left, although he did not believe in rigid party alliances or unexamined allegiances.
		These initial Algren archives were enriched, in 1982, by the acquisition of manuscripts, memorabilia, letters and library owned by Nelson Algren at the time of his death in May 1981.
	library.osu.edu /sites/speccoll/finding/cms60.html (5089 words)

	Amazon.ca: Nonconformity: Books: Nelson Algren (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This volume, essentially a lengthy essay in book form, was written by Algren in the early 1950s, at the peak of his fame and the height of the McCarthy era.
		However, the editor's claim that this is ``Algren's only book-length work of non-fiction'' is dubious; Algren also turned out two substantial travel books and an essay of similar length on his native Chicago, each of them filled with the same corrosive writing on the American scene.
		Algren Bolsters his insights with a barrage of memorable quotes from the Masters: Dostoevsky, Twain, and most importantly, Fitzgerald--none of whom, it seems, ever worked in the comfort of societal/institutional trust and acceptance, no matter how well known they were.
	www.amazon.ca /Nonconformity-Nelson-Algren/dp/1888363622 (1215 words)

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