Algren
Americannoun
noun
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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.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 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
Nelson Algren joined the Chicago office in a city reeling from the Depression.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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
Algren was still a big enough name that “Wild Side” did O.K., but in retrospect it is easy to see its sometimes nasty reception as the beginning of his downward drift.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
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