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Algren

American  
[awl-grin] / ˈɔl grɪn /

noun

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


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)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

What made the Gold Star good wasn’t that Nelson Algren drank there, it was that the kind of people Algren wrote about drank there.

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2019

Algren grudgingly admitted to being pleased by the honor.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 8, 2019

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