As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, 'The Neon Wilderness is the pivo...

A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing W...

Never Come Morning is unique among the novels of Algren. The author's only romance, the novel con...

The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously...

The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published d...

With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street i...

With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street i...

Homme Au Bras D or

Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful voic...

Algren's last novel, based on the life of boxer and death row inmate Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter.

The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren's most powerful and enduring work. On the 50th anniv...

'Mr Algren, boy, you are good.'Ernest HemingwayThe story of a naïve country boy who busts out of ...