page_title: Nelson Algren
section_title: Nelson Algren memorial fountain
hierarchical_section_title: Nelson Algren / Death and honors / Nelson Algren memorial fountain
caption_attribution_description: The fountain at Polonia Triangle in Chicago.
context_page_description: Nelson Algren was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm, won the National Book Award, and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
  According to Harold Augenbraum, "in the late 1940s and early 1950s he was one of the best known literary writers in America". The lover of French writer Simone de Beauvoir, he is featured in her novel The Mandarins, set in Paris and Chicago.
  He is considered "a sort of bard of the down-and-outer", based on this book, but also on his short stories in The Neon Wilderness and his novel A Walk on the Wild Side. The latter was adapted as the 1962 film of the same name.
context_section_description: Algren was also honored in 1998 with the Nelson Algren Fountain located in Chicago's Polish Triangle, in what had been the heart of Polish Downtown, the area that figured as the inspiration for much of his work. Appropriately enough, Division Street, Algren's favorite street as well as the onetime Polish Broadway, runs right past it.
caption: The Nelson Algren Memorial fountain
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