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Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren

By Colin Asher
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By Colin Asher
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“Easily the best biography of the great Nelson Algren, and an extraordinary book in its own right.” —Blake Bailey, author of Cheever: A Life

For a time, Nelson Algren was America’s most famous author, lauded by the likes of Richard Wright and Ernest Hemingway. But at the height of his career, he abandoned fiction and fell into obscurity. Colin Asher’s sublime biography of Algren unravels the enigma of his disappearance, explores the richness of his novels and nonfiction writing, and explains...

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LiteratureLiterary CriticismLiterary BiographyAmerican LiteratureAmerican Literary Biography20th Century American Literature - Post WWII - Literary Criticism20th Century American Authors - Literary BiographyAlgren, Nelson (1909-1981)->Biography