Nelson Algren (1909–1981)
Autor/a de The Man with the Golden Arm
Sobre l'autor
Nelson Algren was a writer, novelist, columnist, and educator. He was born Nelson Algren Abraham on March 28, 1909 in Detroit, Michigan. Algren graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in journalism in 1931. After graduation, Algren worked as a door-to-door salesman and a migratory mostra'n més worker. He also worked for a venereal disease control unit of the Board of Health and with the WPA writers' project. Algren served as a medical corpsman in the U.S. Army during World War II. Later, he served as co-editor of the magazine The New Anvil. Algren taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and the University of Florida. He also wrote a regular column for the Chicago Free Press. Algren's first novel, Somebody in Boots, was published in 1935. His second novel, Never Come Morning, was published in 1942. The book was banned from the Chicago Public Library. Algren received a 1947 Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a grant from Chicago's Newberry Library. In 1949, Algren published The Man with the Golden Arm. The book won the National Book Award and was adapted as a film in 1956. Another book, A Walk on the Wild Side, was also adapted for film in 1962. Algren died in Sag Harbor, New York, on May 9, 1981. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Nelson Algren
The Jungle — Autor — 13 exemplars
A Bottle of Milk for Mother 4 exemplars
Juvenile Jungle 1 exemplars
Algren Nelson 1 exemplars
LA GATA NEGRA. (La ciudad queda lejos). 1 exemplars
Du Miel pour Rocco 1 exemplars
Mannen med den gyllene armen 1 exemplars
Galena guide 1 exemplars
Obres associades
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Col·laborador — 183 exemplars
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Col·laborador — 146 exemplars
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars
On the job: Fiction about work by contemporary American writers (1977) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Story in America, 1933-1934: Thirty-Four Selections from the American Issues of "Story," the Magazine Devoted Solely to… (1934) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1935 — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Algren, Nelson
- Nom oficial
- Abraham, Nelson Ahlgren
- Data de naixement
- 1909-03-28
- Data de defunció
- 1981-05-09
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Oakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor, New York, USA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA (birth)
- Lloc de naixement
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Long Island, New York, USA
- Causa de la mort
- heart attack
- Llocs de residència
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Educació
- University of Illinois (B.S., Journalism, 1931)
- Professions
- writer
- Relacions
- de Beauvoir, Simone (lover)
- Organitzacions
- United States Army
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1981) - Premis i honors
- Nelson Algren Award of the Chicago Tribune named in his honor
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1947)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2010)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 28
- També de
- 34
- Membres
- 3,032
- Popularitat
- #8,424
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 44
- ISBN
- 153
- Llengües
- 10
- Preferit
- 23
Maybe I set it aside because the dialogue is phonetically spelled to portray dialect (which feels outdated, stylistically) and at times the novel reads more like a beat poem. It can also be as frustratingly incomprehensible as Naked Lunch when it narrates the action from the perspective of its drug-addled protagonist. Working through these challenges reveals the sad but engaging story of WWII veteran Frank Majcinek, better known as Frankie Machine, a card-dealing morphine addict struggling to get clean and find honest work in post-war Chicago. Frankie's life is a mélange of disreputable characters stumbling their way through petty crimes, police encounters and piteous relationships with low class people whose moral compasses similarly don't point north. As the novel progresses, the train wreck which will alter the lives of most of these characters becomes inevitable, but as a reader you just can't look away.
The Man With the Golden Arm provides a realistic glimpse of the seedy side of life without judging those caught up in it.… (més)