61. Nelson Algren...- Illinois Issues, July 1990 nelson algren A Life on the Wild Side. New York G.P. Putnam s Sons. 1989. Pp. 416 with notes, photographs and index. $27.95 (cloth). http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1990/ii900735.html

Home Search Browse About IPO ... Links Nelson Algren: left alone By WANDA H. GILES Bettoma Drew . Nelson Algren: A Life on the Wild Side. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1989. Pp. 416 with notes, photographs and index. $27.95 (cloth). Chicago's Nelson Algren encountered in his city as much indifference as the bums in his novels found on the road. When Algren died in Sag Harbor, N.Y., in 1974 — he had hit the road himself for much of his life — Chicago changed the name of West Evergreen Street, in Algren's old neighborhood, to West Algren. But as Mike Royko documented in some powerful columns at the time (author Bettina Drew does not cite them), the residents rejected the hassle. They had never heard of Algren, and they wouldn't mess with a new address for some dead writer. So the name was changed back, and Nelson Algren disappeared from Chicago in death as in life. Drew knows almost all the facts of Algren's life, but she offers painfully little understanding ... In writing a book about the failed life —not a wild one, as the misapprehension of Algren's novel title A Walk on the Wild Side here implies — of this misplaced author, Drew, a New York English professor, took on something that she, like Algren, failed to get right. She had fabulous support: the help of Anne Geismar (her husband, Maxwell, had been Algren's best-known critic for many years) and Algren's friend Art Shay (his own book on Algren appeared in 1988): Algren's papers, collected at Ohio State University (not the first or last time Illinois libraries have failed to collect the work of Illinois writers): interviews with a galaxy of publishing cognoscenti: Algren's books; the critical literature written and published as she did her work (Algren is currently a growth industry, and the scholars are a friendly group). This was a book much anticipated by Algren's readers and publishers. It was bound to sell.

62. Nelson Algren's Crooked Christmas On December 4, 1949, the Chicago Sunday Tribune published Merry Christmas, Mr. Mark, a remembrance by nelson algren. A gambler and drinker, algren had just http://destinyland.org/algren.htm

My favorite Christmas story is about swindlers, who are ten years old, as recounted by one who grew up to be a famous novelist. On December 4, 1949, the Chicago Sunday Tribune published Merry Christmas, Mr. Mark, a remembrance by Nelson Algren. A gambler and drinker, Algren had just written The Man With the Golden Arm , compassionately telling the story of a Chicago morphine addict. That year he'd won the National Book Award, continued his affair with Simone de Beauvoir, and even met Jean-Paul Sartre. But as the year ended, the 40-year-old novelist set down his memories of being a young boy braving the December snow of 71st Street to sell the Saturday Evening Blade at the intersection by the cemetery. "We'd worked up any number of swindles there..." And other swindles involved Chicago's famous wooden trolleys making their final stop by a nearby saloon. "There was almost always some fool on the rear platform waiting for the Blade Once one kid pulled that coughing routine and the mark got off the car and came back for his change, cough or no cough. He didn't care if the kid had TB. Some mark. But while shaking down customers, the news boys discovered they could incorporate the end-of-the-year holiday.

63. Vast And Grand, Monumental: The Art Of Fiction No. 11: Nelson Algren - Books, Fi nelson algren Alston Anderson Terry Southern~Paris Review INTERVIEWER Did you ever feel that you should try heroin, in connection with writing a book http://vastandgrand.blogspot.com/2006/03/art-of-fiction-no-11-nelson-algren.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=22844557"); Vast and grand, monumental A Web Publication Aggregator The Biz The Art of Fiction No. 11: Nelson Algren Paris Review INTERVIEWER: Did you ever feel that you should try heroin, in connection with writing a book about users? ALGREN: No. No, I think you can do a thing like that best from a detached position. INTERVIEWER: Were you ever put down by any of these [users] as an eavesdropper? ALGREN: No, they were mostly amused by it. Oh, they thought it was a pretty funny way to make a living, but—well, one time, after the book came out, I was sitting in this place, and there were a couple of junkies sitting there, and this one guy was real proud of the book; he was trying to get this other guy to read it, and finally the other guy said he had read it, but be said, “You know it ain’t so, it ain’t like that.” There’s a part in the book where this guy takes a shot, and then he’s talking for about four pages. This guy says, “You know it ain’t like that, a guy takes a fix and he goes on the nod, I mean, you know that.” And the other guy says, “Well, on the other hand, if he really knew what he was talking about, he couldn’t write the book, he’d be out in the can.” Saturday is the 18TH Annual Nelson Algren Birthday Party at ACME Arts Bldg.

64. Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award - Guidevines For Writers The nelson algren awards are for unpublished short fiction up to 10000 words by American writers. One $5000 prize and three runnerup prizes of $1500 are http://www.alexwilson.com/guidevines/index.php/Chicago_Tribune_Nelson_Algren_Awa

Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award From Guidevines , a user-editable wiki for writers From Guidevines Jump to: navigation search The Nelson Algren awards are for unpublished short fiction up to 10,000 words by American writers. One $5,000 prize and three runner-up prizes of $1,500 are awarded. There is no entry fee. Next Deadline: March 17, 2006 edit Related Resources Non-Genre Fiction Markets edit External Links Submission Guidelines Retrieved from " http://www.alexwilson.com/guidevines/index.php/Chicago_Tribune_Nelson_Algren_Award Categories Markets for Non-Genre Stories Markets for Fiction ... Markets for Stories Your contribution is encouraged! Click EDIT or learn more about Editing or Creating Articles Views Article Discussion Edit History Personal tools Log in / create account Main Page Recent Updates Site Writing Tools Business Tools Markets Definitions ... Writer Bios Etc Random page Support GV Help Search Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages ... About Guidevines This page was last modified 17:21, 13 June 2007. Content is available under Attribution 3.0

65. Sans Serif » Blog Archive » Nelson Algren Awards The nelson algren awards are for short fiction. Submissions must be written by an American and must be unpublished. One (1) $5000 prize and three (3) http://michellerichmond.com/sanserif/2006/01/10/nelsen-algren-awards/

Sans Serif Michelle Richmond Fiction Attic Fog ... talk to me nelson algren awards January 10th, 2006 by from the Chicago Tribune The Nelson Algren awards are for short fiction. Submissions must be written by an American and must be unpublished. One (1) $5,000 prize and three (3) runner-up prizes of $1,500 are awarded. The award is given in memory of Chicago author Nelson Algren. Stories must be typed and double-spaced, between 2,500 and 10,000 words. E-mailed submissions will not be considered. Manuscripts will not be returned. Author’s names should not appear on the manuscript. Authors are allowed to submit two entries. Authors should enclose a cover sheet with name, address, phone, and title of entry. Authors should secure the pages of their manuscripts with a staple or paper clip. There is no entry fee. Deadline: March 17, 2006. Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Awards 435 N. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60611 Posted in Ephemera Literary Contests 14 Responses Izola Blird February 8th, 2006 at 7:22 am I wrote to the Nelson Algren Award last year, because I missed the deadline. I was searching the web and found the Nelson Award, but to submit before Feb 1, 06. Is this true have I missed another deadline? No one sent me any thing in the mail. My address is 250 N. Albert Ave. South Bend, IN 46619. I would like to know when the next deadline would be? Michelle February 8th, 2006 at 1:34 pm

66. Alienation And Isolation In Nelson Algren's "A Bottle Of Milk For Mother" EJ047416 Alienation and Isolation in nelson algren. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/recordDetail?accno=EJ047416

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