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Nelson Algren

b: Detroit, Michigan., Mar 28, 1909

d: Sag Harbor, New York., May 9, 1981

"Poet of the Chicago Slums". American. Author. Realistic novels include The Man with the Golden Arm, about drug addiction, 1949; made into 1955 film with Frank Sinatra.

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"Benedict Arnold - Betrayers of American boyhood. Not to mention American Girlhood and American Womanhood and American Hoodhood,"

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.