So, Bales brought Shay’s book home and he was soon devouring Algren’s work and realized “there was more to Nelson Algren than his novels.” That’s a lot of posthumous presence and now, this new book, which began more than a dozen years ago, when Richard Bales picked up a copy of Art Shay’s 2007 book “Chicago’s Nelson Algren.” There is a Nelson Algren Museum in Miller Beach, Indiana, and celebrations of his March 28 birthday, and seminars and …
The Tribune long presented annual literary awards in Algren’s name, last in 2019. There was 2009′s posthumous collection, “Entrapment and Other Writings,” and biographies, most recently a couple of very good ones, including Mary Wisniewski’s terrific “Algren: A Life” and two documentary films. His books are still read and studied, among them his first novel, “Somebody in Boots” (1935) what I consider his best, “Never Come Morning” (1942) his most famous, “The Man with the Golden Arm” (1949 and winner of the National Book Award) the nonfiction masterpiece “Chicago: City on the Make” (1951). Though he moved from Chicago in 1975 and died in 1981, he has managed to remain a frequent visitor, in the form of his famous novels, of course, but also in other ways that have given him a strange form of immortality.īefore telling you of the latest Algren appearance, which is a fine book titled “The Short Writings of Nelson Algren: A Study of the Stories, Essays, Articles, Reviews, Poems and Other Literature,” let me remind you of some others.
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