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Nelson Algren | |
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 Algren in 1956 | |
| Born | Nelson Ahlgren Abraham March 28, 1909 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | May 9, 1981 (aged 72) Long Island, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign (BA) |
| Genre | Novel, short story |
| Notable awards | National Book Award 1950 |
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| Partner | Simone de Beauvoir (1947–1964) |
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 the 1955 film of the same name.
Algren articulated the world of "drunks, pimps, prostitutes, freaks, drug addicts, prize fighters, corrupt politicians, and hoodlums".[citation needed] Art Shay singled out a poem Algren wrote from the perspective of a "halfy," street slang for a legless man on wheels.[3] Shay said that Algren considered this poem to be a key to everything he had ever written.[3] The protagonist talks about "how forty wheels rolled over his legs and how he was ready to strap up and give death a wrestle."[3]
According to Harold Augenbraum, "in the late 1940s and early 1950s he was one of the best known literary writers in America."[4] The lover of French writer Simone de Beauvoir,[4] he is featured in her novel The Mandarins,[4] set in Paris and Chicago. He was called "a sort of bard of the down-and-outer"[4] based on this book, but also on his short stories in The Neon Wilderness (1947) and his novel A Walk on the Wild Side (1956). The latter was adapted as the 1962 film of the same name (directed by Edward Dmytryk, screenplay by John Fante).
- ^ Prof. Brooke Horvath, PhD (2005). Understanding Nelson Algren. Univ. of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9781570035746.
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ShayP118was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c d "1950". Harold Augenbraum and Rachel Kushner. 60 Years of Honoring Great American Books (book-a-day blog), June 18, 2009. National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 6, 2018.
Augenbraum was the executive director of the National Book Foundation, marking the 60-year anniversary of the National Book Award for Fiction, as resumed after the war. Algren won the first one.
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