“This is a man writing and you should not read it if you cannot take a punch. . . . Mr. Algren, boy, you are good.”—Ernest Hemingway“Algren is an artist whose s
The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren's most powerful and enduring work. On the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949, for which Algren was honored with the first National Book A
The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren's lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world, and include
