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'''Nelson Algren''' (1909-1981) was an American author.  His works include:  ''The Man with the Golden Arm'' (1949) and ''A Walk on the Wild Side'' (1956).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''.  Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.</ref>

'''Nelson Algren''' (1909-1981) was an American author.  His works include:  ''The Man with the Golden Arm'' (1949) and ''A Walk on the Wild Side'' (1956).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''.  Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.</ref> His works mostly concern the Great Depression, which he endured in his twenties.

==Life and Works==

==Life and Works==

Nelson Algren was born March 28, 1909, as Nelson Algren Abraham, to a mechanically inclined Hoosier father, and moved into a Protestant neighborhood in Chicago.<ref>http://www.believermag.com/issues/201301/?read=article_asher</ref>  After growing up in poor Chicago, attending the University of Illinois at Urbana, and trying to become a journalist, he drifted south and joined thieves and prostitutes and spent jail time in Texas.<ref>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/nelson-algren</ref>  Unable to find work in the Great Depression, he took to writing, and published his first novel, ''Someone in Boots'', in 1935, set in the place he spent his life.<ref>http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/natalieandmegan/index.html/NelsonAlgren/algrentimeline.htm</ref>  His scandalous works in these foul settings did not receive much attention, and while some blame his being unwilling to promote himself, others blame his insistence that all good literature must be shocking.<ref>http://www.nelsonalgren.org/essays.html</ref>  He paused writing to serve as a private in the Second World War.<ref>http://biography.yourdictionary.com/nelson-algren</ref>  After the war, he published ''The Man with the Golden Arm'', about a poker dealer losing his skill to drug addiction, and ''A Walk on the Wild Side'', in the Depression in New Orleans.<ref>"Algren, Nelson."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>  He continued to document Chicago from his flat and romance [[feminism|feminist]] [[Simone de Beauvoir]] in his later years.<ref>http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/last-residence-of-author-nelson-algren</ref>

Nelson Algren was born March 28, 1909, as Nelson Algren Abraham, to a mechanically inclined Hoosier father, and moved into a Protestant neighborhood in Chicago.<ref>Asher, Colin. "But Never a Lovely So Read." ''Believer Magazine''. January 2013. http://www.believermag.com/issues/201301/?read=article_asher</ref>  After growing up in poor Chicago, attending the University of Illinois at Urbana, and trying to become a journalist, he drifted south and joined thieves and prostitutes and spent jail time in Texas.<ref>"Nelson Algren." ''Poetry Foundation''. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/nelson-algren</ref>  Unable to find work in the Great Depression, he took to writing, and published his first novel, ''Someone in Boots'', in 1935, set in the place he spent his life.<ref>"Nelson Algren Timeline". University of Michigan, student project. http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/natalieandmegan/index.html/NelsonAlgren/algrentimeline.htm</ref>  His scandalous works in these foul settings did not receive much attention, and while some blame his being unwilling to promote himself, others blame his insistence that all good literature must be shocking.<ref>Iglarsh, Hugh. "A Heroic Line of Losers: From Herman Melville to Nelson Algren." http://www.nelsonalgren.org/essays.html</ref>  He paused writing to serve as a private in the Second World War.<ref>"Nelson Algren.

''Your Dictionary''. http://biography.yourdictionary.com/nelson-algren</ref>  After the war, he published ''The Man with the Golden Arm'', about a poker dealer losing his skill to drug addiction, and ''A Walk on the Wild Side'', in the Depression in New Orleans.<ref>"Algren, Nelson."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>  He continued to document Chicago from his flat and romance [[feminism|feminist]] [[Simone de Beauvoir]] in his later years.<ref>"The Last Resident of Nelson Algren. ''Atlas Obscura''. http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/last-residence-of-author-nelson-algren</ref>

==See Also==

==See Also==

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[[Category:American Authors]]

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