Dictionary definition: Algren, Nelson

Article: Nelson Algren: `The past is ashes'
Chicago Sun-Times;  October 8, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Nelson Algren A Life on the Wild Side. By Bettina ... 24.95. This first biography ever of Nelson Algren begins in a peculiarly offhand fashion ... sentence one: "Algren's grandfather Nelson Algren was `good on the con,' but in the ...

Article: Nelson Algren
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Nelson Algren The American author Nelson Algren (1909-1981) wrote novels and short stories about underworld characters, often set in the slums of Chicago. Nelson Algren has been called the poet of the under-world. His characters ...

Article: Literary lion // Friends of Nelson Algren gather to ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  December 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... the lasting relevance of author Nelson Algren. In Bettina Drew's just-published biography, Nelson Algren, Algren's novelist-friend ... will kick off the movement for a Nelson Algren Memorial Park at the intersection ...

Article: Wicker Park shares happy memories of Nelson Algren
Chicago Sun-Times;  August 16, 1991 ;     700+ words ...Nelson Algren left Chicago 16 years ago and has been ... includes 10 stops, is sponsored by the Nelson Algren Committee, a group co-founded by McCarrell ... Guitierrez to get the city to put up Nelson Algren Way street signs on Evergreen Street ...

Article: A celebration of Nelson Algren
Chicago Sun-Times;  February 14, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... shorter shadow each day, Nelson Algren comes like a corvette ... in the First Person: Nelson Algren 1909-81," opening ... changing his name from Nelson Ahlgren Abraham, and ... showing mostly As and Bs. Algren, who knew the value of ...

Article: Lettres a Nelson Algren: Un amour transatlantique, ...
World Literature Today;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Simone de Beauvoir's 304 letters to Nelson Algren, written directly in English (Algren knew no French), have been edited and translated ... 1954), in which "Lewis Brogan" (i.e., Algren) is the leading character, L'Amerique au ...

Article: The rainbow sign of Nelson Algren.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language;  December 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... be neon rainbows in the snow. Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm We may know Nelson Algren's fiction by the "rain [that ... Algren, Golden Arm, 34). For in Nelson Algren's version of the dark night ...