Algren
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
In later years, Algren would “credit the FWP for keeping the suicide rate down”; he went to work on an array of bread-and-butter assignments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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 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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