The Man with the Golden Arm
In his 1981 obituary for Algren, Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko, who grew up near Division Street, recalled first reading the book while serving in the Korean War. "It was the first time I had read a novel that was set in a place I knew. And Algren, with "The Man with the Golden Arm", had captured it. He had the people, the sounds, the alleys, the streets, the feel of the place."