Nelson Ahlgren Abraham (1909-03-28)March 28, 1909 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died
May 9, 1981(1981-05-09) (aged 72) Long Island, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Writer
Alma mater
University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign (BA)
Genre
Novel, short story
Notable awards
National Book Award 1950
Spouse
Amanda Kontowicz
(m. 1937; div. 1946)
[1]
Betty Ann Jones
(m. 1965; div. 1967)
Partner
Simone de Beauvoir (1947–1964)
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 Book Award[2] 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".[citation needed] Art Shay singled out a poem Algren wrote from the perspective of a "halfy," street slang for a legless man on wheels.[3] Shay said that Algren considered this poem to be a key to everything he had ever written.[3] The protagonist talks about "how forty wheels rolled over his legs and how he was ready to strap up and give death a wrestle."[3]
According to Harold Augenbraum, "in the late 1940s and early 1950s he was one of the best known literary writers in America."[4] The lover of French writer Simone de Beauvoir,[4] he is featured in her novel The Mandarins,[4] set in Paris and Chicago. He was called "a sort of bard of the down-and-outer"[4] based on this book, but also on his short stories in The Neon Wilderness (1947) and his novel A Walk on the Wild Side (1956). The latter was adapted as the 1962 film of the same name (directed by Edward Dmytryk, screenplay by John Fante).
^Prof. Brooke Horvath, PhD (2005). Understanding Nelson Algren. Univ. of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9781570035746.
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^ abcd"1950". Harold Augenbraum and Rachel Kushner. 60 Years of Honoring Great American Books (book-a-day blog), June 18, 2009. National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 6, 2018. Augenbraum was the executive director of the National Book Foundation, marking the 60-year anniversary of the National Book Award for Fiction, as resumed after the war. Algren won the first one.
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Project ("Look At Me"), the Chicago Tribune ("The Americans", also a 2010 NelsonAlgren Short Story Awards finalist), and Gulf Coast, where his story won the...
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