Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National...
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A Walk on the Wild Side (redirect from Walk on the wild side (algren))
A Walk on the Wild Side is a 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, also adapted into the 1962 film of the same name. Set in Depression era, it is "the tragi-comedy...
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The Man with the Golden Arm is a novel by Nelson Algren, published by Doubleday in November 1949. One of the seminal novels of post-World War II American...
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directed by Otto Preminger, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren. Starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang and...
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A list of the published work of Nelson Algren, American writer. Somebody in Boots (1935) Never Come Morning (1942) The Neon Wilderness (1947), a collection...
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1959, but perhaps her most famous lover was American author Nelson Algren. Beauvoir met Algren in Chicago in 1947, while she was on a four-month "exploration"...
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destitution, and he leaves Knoxville, seeking a new life. Novelist Nelson Algren argued that the novel was "a memorable American comedy by an original...
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adapted from the 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side by American author Nelson Algren. The film was scripted by John Fante. While it passed its censors, it...
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stories, and The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing—and won the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She taught at Stony Brook University. Bank...
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Archive-Extract: 1998/981120/ALGREN[permanent dead link] "Nelson Algren Fountain". Reader Archive-Extract: 1998/981120/ALGREN[permanent dead link] chicagoreader...
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Nonconformity (book) (redirect from Nonconformity (Nelson Algren book))
Nonconformity: Writing on Writing is a book-length essay by Nelson Algren, intended for publication in 1953 but released posthumously in 1996 by Seven...
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short-story collection by American writer Nelson Algren. Two of its stories had received an O. Henry Award. Algren received an award from the American Academy...
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long friendship with the writer Nelson Algren led to the publication of Shay's Nelson Algren's Chicago. Shay and Algren met in 1949 and collaborated on...
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The Last Samurai (redirect from Nathan Algren)
Hiroyuki Sanada, and Koyuki in supporting roles. Cruise portrays Nathan Algren, an American captain of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, whose personal and emotional...
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stress reaction employed by the U.S. military "Biceps", a 1941 story by Nelson Algren in The Neon Wilderness Bicep (disambiguation) Biceps femoris muscle...
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Chicago: City on the Make is a book-length essay by Nelson Algren published in 1951. Initially greeted with scorn by critics and newspaper editors in...
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marries him and has a child by him. Lewis Brogan (considered to be Nelson Algren, to whom the book is dedicated) is an American writer with whom Anne...
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by a scientist (Severn Darden). Other notable cast members include Nelson Algren as a mobster named Needles, and Ken Nordine as the narrator, credited...
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anthology of the letters between Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre Lettres à Nelson Algren Correspondance croisée (Simone de Beauvoir and Jacques-Laurent Bost)...
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Go! Forty Years Ago" Nelson Algren, Chicago Sun-Times, 1959 "Ballet for Opening Day: The Swede Was a Hard Guy" Algren, Nelson. The Southern Review, Baton...
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title of Chicago writer Nelson Algren's first novel, Somebody in Boots, based on a piece of doggerel about the first Texan. Algren and Wright had met at...
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Somebody in Boots is writer Nelson Algren's first novel, based on his personal experiences of living in Texas during the Great Depression. The novel was...
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and eggs and coffee and bread and hung the accordion safely away." (Nelson Algren, "How the Devil Came Down Division Street", 1944, in The Neon Wilderness...
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quality management A type of unconformity in geology Nonconformity (Nelson Algren book), a 1950s essay published in 1996 This disambiguation page lists...
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Among his favorite authors are Raymond Chandler, Hubert Selby, and Nelson Algren. Colony of Whores (2014) Empty Mile (2010) High Life (2002) Cows (1998)...
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Guggenheim Fellowship 2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award 2007 Whiting Award 1984 Nelson Algren Award Torches: A Novel. City College of New York. 1979. The Casanova...
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14, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2018. "Book Publishers Make 3 Awards: Nelson Algren, Dr. Ralph L. Rusk and Dr. W. C. Williams Receive Gold Plaques". The...
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refer to: Katz Kobayashi, a character in Japanese anime "Katz", a 1947 Nelson Algren story in The Neon Wilderness Katz, a character in Courage the Cowardly...
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"barricaded in the kitchen." At her husband's urging, she submitted it to the Nelson Algren Short Fiction competition in 1982, for which it won the $5,000 prize...
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non-fiction and children's literature included the first books of Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Marshall McLuhan, Joyce Carol Oates and Dr. Seuss. With...
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