Authors and Illustrators Database

Nelson Ahlgren Abraham

Born: 1909  Detroit
Died: 1981
Spouse: Amanda (1st), Betty Ann (2nd)

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Entrapment and Other Writings Fiction Adult Seven Stories Press 2009
A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren
- With Simone de Beauvoir compiled by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir 		Non Fiction Adult The New Press 1998
Nonconformity: Writing on Writing Non Fiction Adult Seven Stories Press 1996
The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren
- Twelve stories on the author's hobo days in Texas where he searched for work during the 1930s depression and was jailed for stealing. In one story he writes, "God help you if you run and God help you if you fight; God help you if you're broke and God help you if you're black." 		Fiction, Short Stories Adult https://libraryofmichigan.state.mi.us/Authors/ 1995
America Eats
- Preface by Louis I. Szathmáry II ; foreword by David E. Schoonover ; [edited by David E. Schoonover]. 		Non Fiction Adult Iowa City : University of Iowa Press 1993
He Swung and He Missed
- In The world's greatest boxing stories (p.14-20) 		Non Fiction, Short Stories Adult Creative Education 1993
The Devil's Stocking
- 1981 in German translation 		Non Fiction Adult New York : Arbor House Library of Contemporary Americana, 1983
The Last Carousel
- Collection of short pieces 		Non Fiction, Short Stories Adult Putnam 1973
Notes from a Sea Diary: Hemingway All the Way
- Essays written in the spirit of Hemingway Combines the author's impression of his meeting with Hemingway in Cuba and personal anecdotes of life in the small pleasure docks that he has visited. 		Non Fiction Adult New York, Putnam 1965
Who Lost an American? Non Fiction Adult New York: Macmillan 1963
A Walk on the Wild Side
- Also made into a play and movie (Algren did not approve of production) (Publication Years: 1956, 1978, 1990) 		Fiction Adult Farrar Straus, Greenwood Press, Thunder's Mouth Press 1956
Chicago: City on the Make
- Prose Poem. Poetic description of Chicago.(Publication Years: 1951, 1983) 		Poetry Adult Doubleday, McGraw 1951
The Man with the Golden Arm
- Movie made of novel (Algren did not approve of production) (Publication Years: 1949, 1978) 		Fiction Adult New York: Doubleday 1949
The Neon Wilderness
- (Publication Years: 1947, 1986) 		Fiction, Short Stories Adult Doubleday 1947
Never Come Morning
- (Publication Years: 1942, 1968) 		Fiction Adult New York: Harper, Berkley 1942
Somebody in boots : a novel
- (Publication Years: 1935, 1965) 		Fiction Adult New York : Vanguard Press, 1935
Other writings:
- Short stories, articles, reviews, essays in such periodicals as Saturday Evening Post, Rolling Stone, Atlantic, Life, Nation, American Mercury Also contributor to anthologies, book forewords 		Adult

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Awards:

Name Date
P.E.N./Nelson Algren Fiction Award begun in his memory by P.E.N. American Center 1983
Fiction contest established in his name by Chicago Magazine 1982
National Institute of Arts and Letters Medal of Merit 1974
Newberry Library Fellowship 1950
National Book Award
- for The Man with the Golden Arm 		1950
National Institute of Arts and Letters Fellowship 1947

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Contemporary Authors
- Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 13-16R Contemporary Authors - Obituary, volume(s) 103 Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, volume(s) 20, 61 		1965-1998
American Authors and Books
American Novelists of Today
Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature
Contemporary Novelists (St. James Press, an imprint of Gale), edition(s) 1, 2
Dictionary of Literary Biography
A Directory of American Fiction Writers
Modern American Literature
Oxford Companion to American Literature
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in Twentieth Century Literature
Who's Who in the World

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) University of Illinois IL 1931

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Columnist Chicago Free Press Chicago 1970
Teacher of Creative Writing University of Iowa, University of Florida Iowa City, IA and Gainesville, FL 1967-1974
Medical Corpsman U.S. Army 1942-1945
Author and Journalist
- Coverage of the Vietnam War in 1969 		1941-1981
Co-editor with Jack Conroy The New Anvil Chicago 1939-1941
Employee Gas station Rio Hondo 1933
Door to door Salesman and Migratory worker
- During the Depression
Veneral Disease Control
- 1930s 		Chicago Board of Health Chicago
Writers' project
- 1930s 		W.P.A.

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