He took his Swedish grandfather's name Algren and started writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org] Reference

Edwards's treatment of Algren is neither new or fresh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nelson Algren: An Exchange] Reference

I hope Algren remembered to put these into his stories!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nelson Algren: An Exchange] Reference

Donohue later published as "Conversations With Nelson Algren".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nelson Algren] Reference

Melissa Bank won the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melissa Bank biography] Reference

On Monday. 19th July '48, Simone wrote to Algren. in her letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

Algren had gone through a hellish period during the McCarthy era.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan Herman: The Beats Left Nelson Algren Cold, Jack Kerouac Especially] Reference

Algren was born 100 years ago this month -- on March 28, to be exact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan Herman: Nelson Algren, Most Quotable of Writers] Reference

Algren: I think a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference

Who can blame Algren for later denouncing her and call her Madame Yakity Yak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simone de Beauvoir – Paris with Sartre, Chicago with Nelson Algren] Reference

There'll be some never-seen photographs by the original Algren stalker, Art Shay.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Murray: Why you Might Want to Attend Saturday's 'Nelson-Tennial'] Reference

As Hemingway put it to Algren in another context, "Boy, you hit with both hands.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nelson Algren: An Exchange] Reference

Yesterday was a day that only Terkel, Royco, Algren or Ivins could have really captured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whitney Leigh: A Long Road to Walk] Reference

Having gained literary fame just before the Beats arrived, Algren might have felt upstaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan Herman: The Beats Left Nelson Algren Cold, Jack Kerouac Especially] Reference

On Evergreen Street one can still see the apartment where Algren lived with Simone de Beauvoir.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Footsteps of Tocqueville] Reference

Algren-related performances and scholarship (his translator into Nepalese will be in the house!).    From Wordnik.com.  [David Murray: Why you Might Want to Attend Saturday's 'Nelson-Tennial'] Reference

The agent to whom the Algren case was assigned had risen from Bureau clerk and he was not well read.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will]

Algren, most famous for The Man With The Golden Arm, wrote this unblinking 12,000 word essay in 1951.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Hanft: Who Needs the Olympics? Consolation Reading for Chicago Lovers] Reference

Cammie McGovern was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and received the Nelson Algren Award in short fiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cammie McGovern biography] Reference

New York, N.Y. Nelson Algren did indeed live on Evergreen Street in Chicago, but only from 1959 to 1975.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Editor] Reference

Just how wrong Kazin was can be seen at Seven Stories, which has thrown Algren a beautiful posthumous lifeline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan Herman: Nelson Algren, Most Quotable of Writers] Reference

Is it any wonder that Kazin, among his many chores, made it his business to write on the Failure of Algren, too?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan Herman: Nelson Algren, Most Quotable of Writers] Reference

They were a couple of specialists in the campaign of Algren-bashing; not that they didn't come out of it unbloodied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nelson Algren: An Exchange] Reference

(‘The Lightless Room’, by Nelson Algren, Granta, 108, 2009 – the story was written before Algren died in 1981).    From Wordnik.com.  [C is for Conditional (the Third) « An A-Z of ELT] Reference

Algren discusses everything from his childhood to his compulsion to write to his relationship with Simone de Beauvoir.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chicago Blog: March 2006 Archives] Reference

For instance, this satirical vignette about Alfred Kazin (someone else Algren didn't think was so great) begins like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan Herman: Nelson Algren, Most Quotable of Writers] Reference

Richard Wright (who was "more diligent than most of us," Algren said) wrote his novel "Native Son" while a Project writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Stimulus Deal for Writers] Reference

Zadig was a sage in Babylon who was, like Nelson, hounded by ill fortune and died, as Algren did, disappointed in everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nelson Algren: An Exchange] Reference

Edwards ends the review in quoting me describing Algren as "very much like Lear's fool who can say the truth in his own way.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nelson Algren: An Exchange] Reference

By the mid-'50s the establishment critics were crowing that Algren was a has-been, citing A Walk on the Wild Side as evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan Herman: The Beats Left Nelson Algren Cold, Jack Kerouac Especially] Reference

Take Heart and hooray for Nelson Algren readers, Jan 1 2005, came this article by Studs Terkel who salutes a seriously witty man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simone de Beauvoir – Paris with Sartre, Chicago with Nelson Algren] Reference

And Algren was terrifically funny when he wasn't relentlessly bitter about being unappreciated in Chicago and spit out by Hollywood.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Murray: Why you Might Want to Attend Saturday's 'Nelson-Tennial'] Reference

This lyric, Finn says, is a reference to a lyric in a Dillinger Four song: "Nelson Algren came to me and said celebrate the ugly things.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hold Steady] Reference

Here's the sum total of what I've surmised from my investigation: Algren didn't drink as much as it's reputed; gambling was his real vice.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Murray: Why you Might Want to Attend Saturday's 'Nelson-Tennial'] Reference