Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren is a North-American writer Jewish and communist born in 1909 with Detroit, Michigan, and deceased the May 9th 1981.

Algren made its studies at the University of Illinois and exerted various small trades, all as a practitioner the Boxe. Regarded as a typical novelist of Chicago its works are the realistic reflection of the American life. Impassioned by the play and alcohol, it fought against the hostility of the publishers. He died in misery and the total indifference so much so that anybody his corpse did not claim.

Its interest for the dark face of the american company would have been worth to him on behalf of FBI a file of 500 pages although no precise element attesting of the character subversive of its writings was worth true problems to him.

In France, it is introduced into the medium existentialist by Simone de Beauvoir with which it has during more than 15 years an impassioned relation. From this union, is born an important correspondence. The letters of Simone de Beauvoir (more than 300) were published by Sylvie the Plug Beauvoir but it did not have the authorization to translate and publish those of Nelson Algren.

Its work was adapted to the cinema by twice: the Man with the gold arm (Otto Preminger, 1955), and the hot Street (Edward Dmytryk, 1962).

Publications

• the Man with the gold arm
• the Morning is made await
• Tricoté like the diable"