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Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren (March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer.
Algren was born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of three he moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois where they lived in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on the South Side. His father was the son...
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