Question: Which writer was born first, Nelson Algren or Robert Desnos
Sentence (from "Chicago: City on the Make"): Initially greeted with scorn by critics and newspaper editors in the city of its gaze (The "Chicago Daily News" famously called it a "Case for Ra(n)t Control"), it is now widely regarded by scholars as the definitive prose portrait of the city of Chicago, although it has never rivaled the literary status of Carl Sandburg's 1916 poem "Chicago."
Relevant evidence: No