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Nelson Algren

1909 - 1981

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Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) 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. Algren articulated the world of "drunks, pimps, prostitutes, freaks, drug addicts, prize fighters, corrupt politicians, and hoodlums". Art Shay singled out a poem Algren wrote from the perspective of a "halfy," street slang for a legless man on wheels. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nelson Algren is the 1,931st most popular writer (up from 2,169th in 2019), the 2,838th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,715th in 2019) and the 228th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Nelson Algren ranks 1,931 out of 7,302. Before him are Gitta Sereny, John Banville, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Petr Ginz, Daṇḍin, and Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. After him are Mary Norton, Chuck Palahniuk, Alexander Polyhistor, Don Juan Manuel, Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, and Maria Shriver.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Nelson Algren ranks 95. Before him are Adolfo López Mateos, Matti Järvinen, Albert R. Broccoli, Isa Miranda, Stavros Niarchos, and Harro Schulze-Boysen. After him are Attilio Demaría, Franz Bardon, Johannes Willebrands, Jim Davis, Mikhail Mil, and Hideo Sakai. Among people deceased in 1981, Nelson Algren ranks 65. Before him are Mike Hailwood, Giuseppe Pella, Lotte Reiniger, Franjo Šeper, Ella Grasso, and Valeri Kharlamov. After him are Lotte Lenya, Christy Brown, Ziaur Rahman, Jim Davis, Kirill Kondrashin, and Grunya Sukhareva.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nelson Algren ranks 2,838 out of 20,380. Before him are Tim Keller (1950), Henry Heimlich (1920), Tom Price (1954), Warner Baxter (1889), John F. MacArthur (1939), and Joe Perry (1950). After him are Chuck Palahniuk (1962), Richard Ramirez (1960), Bob Bennett (1933), Muriel Humphrey Brown (1912), Wally Schirra (1923), and Maria Shriver (1955).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Nelson Algren ranks 228. Before him are Siri Hustvedt (1955), Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942), Shirley Jackson (1916), Frederik Pohl (1919), E. E. Cummings (1894), and John Barth (1930). After him are Chuck Palahniuk (1962), Maria Shriver (1955), Agnes Smedley (1892), Clark Ashton Smith (1893), Nicholas Sparks (1965), and William Moulton Marston (1893).

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