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Algren, Nelson Abraham (1909–1981)| US novelist. His best-known novel was The Man with the Golden Arm (1949; filmed 1956), a story about gambling and drug addiction, which won the first National Book Award. Other works include two travel books, the prose-poem Chicago: City on the Make (1951), and the novel A Walk on the Wild Side (1956; filmed 1962), set in a New Orleans brothel. |
| Born in Detroit, Algren lived mainly in the Chicago area, the setting for most of his fiction. |
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