Authors and Illustrators Database

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

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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