Nelson Algren
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Nelson Algren
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Nelson Algren was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name. Algren articulated the world of "drunks, pimps, prostitutes, freaks, drug addicts, prize fighters, corrupt politicians, and hoodlums". Art Shay singled out a poem Algren wrote from the perspective of a "halfy," street slang for a legless man on wheels. Shay said that Algren considered this poem to be a key to everything he had ever writte
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American writer (1909–1981)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Algren
date created:
2003-02-12T08:29:48Z
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2024-08-27T21:21:50Z
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