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Algren

[awl-grin]

noun

  1. Nelson, 1909–81, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.



Algren

/ ˈɔːlɡrən /

noun

  1. Nelson. 1909–81, US novelist. His novels, mostly set in Chicago, include Never Come Morning (1942) and The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)

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Something similar might be said of Banks, who, like Algren, wrote in part to give voice to the marginalized.

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He never sought the seedy side of urban life like Nelson Algren or Upton Sinclair.

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When she won a Nelson Algren award for short fiction in 1993, she felt her career was about to take off.

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Nelson Algren joined the Chicago office in a city reeling from the Depression.

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To this catalogue of sagacity, Algren today might add, Never trust a group that claims to work for God, country or liberty, as any or all three are unlikely to be well-represented.

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