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| 1909 - 1981 "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."
--Nelson Algren "The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D."
--Nelson Algren Moved to Chicago at age 3. Graduated from University of Illinois during the Depression. Known for portrayals of the urban underclass. Two of his novels were made into films. He had an affair with Simone de Beauvoir, which she wrote about in "Les Mandarins." Works:
- Somebody in Boots, 1935
- Galena Guide, 1937
- Never Come Morning, (Design by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) 1942
- The Neon Wilderness, 1947
- The Man with the Golden Arm, 1949 - National Book Award - film 1956, dir. by Otto Preminger, starring Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak
- Chicago, City on the Make, 1951
- A Walk on the Wild Side, 1956 - film 1962, dir. by Edward Dmytryk
- Who Lost an American? 1963
- Algren's Own Book of Lonesome Monsters, 1963
- Conversations, 1964
- Notes from a Sea Diary: Hemingway All the Way, 1965
- The Last Carousel, 1973
- Calhoun, 1981
- The Devil's Stocking, 1983
- Nonconformity: Writing on Writing, 1998
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