Nelson Algren

Click on the video to see incredible interviews with the 2010 awards presenters/authors Sara Paretsky on Gwendolyn Brooks and Haki Muhubuti on Richard Wright, and photographer Art Shay on Nelson Algren.

Elysabeth Alfano: Behind the Scenes at the Chicago Literary Awards Elysabeth Alfano 2011

Click on the video to see incredible interviews with the 2010 awards presenters/authors Sara Paretsky on Gwendolyn Brooks and Haki Muhubuti on Richard Wright, and photographer Art Shay on Nelson Algren.

Elysabeth Alfano: Behind the Scenes at the Chicago Literary Awards Elysabeth Alfano 2011

Before he was drafted, Mr. Altschuler immigrated to the U.S. from Germany to work under the artist László Moholy-Nagy and later became one of Playboy magazine's first illustrators for articles by Nelson Algren, Ray Bradbury, Vladimir Nabokov and other important writers.

Evoking the World of War Joel Henning 2011

Two years later, by the time he and my mother divorced, he had already finished his second novel, was on to his third, and was writing a play with Nelson Algren.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

On the other hand, he's too cranky and conservative to play the tribune of the common man along the lines of Nelson Algren who took time away from the mean streets for an affair with Simone de Beauvoir, Richard Wright, Studs Terkel or Carl "City of Big Shoulders" Sandburg.

Boulevardier's Delight Henry Allen 2011

My other quibble is that there's nothing to read by Ernest Hemingway and Nelson Algren.

Jan Herman: Writers on Fighters Jan Herman 2011

Perhaps she would be interested to hear that Nelson Algren, the novelist, was another.

Jan Herman: A "John" Named Nelson Algren Jan Herman 2011

Two years later, by the time he and my mother divorced, he had already finished his second novel, was on to his third, and was writing a play with Nelson Algren.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

My other quibble is that there's nothing to read by Ernest Hemingway and Nelson Algren.

Jan Herman: Writers on Fighters Jan Herman 2011

Nelson Algren, who said of Chicago, and I say of Prentice, You may well find lovelier lovelies.

Edward Lifson: Top Ten Reasons to Save Prentice Hospital Edward Lifson 2011