Algren
Subtitle: a life
By: Mary Wisniewski
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781613735329
Subjects: American Novelists; Biography; American Authors
Description: "Algren: A Life is a new biography of Chicago writer Nelson Algren, author of The Man with the Golden Arm, A Walk on the Wild Side, Never Come Morning, multiple short stories, and travel essays"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-345) and index.
Table of contents: title: Childhood days; title: College and the crash; title: Prison and Somebody in boots; title: Marriage and the WPA; title: Polonia and Never come morning; title: Polonia's revenge, and Algren in the Army; title: Beloved local youth; title: Golden years; title: The walls begin to close; title: The nonconformist; title: Return of the native; title: Good-bye to fiction; title: Good-bye to Chicago; title: Knitted backwards.