Algren

American  

[awl-grin] / ˈɔl grɪn /

noun

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

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Algren British  

/ 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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Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2022

In the 1930s and ’40s, the government hired thousands of underemployed writers — Zora Neale Hurston, Nelson Algren and Richard Wright among them — to document the country, with often quirky results.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2021

I portray the rural landscapes of small-town Wisconsin – but I also read the big-shouldered Chicago fiction of Nelson Algren and Rebecca Makkai.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2019

Leslie Fiedler used the occasion of the novel’s publication to dismiss Algren himself as “a museum piece—the last of the proletarian writers.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 8, 2019