Documents Algren's journey through the seamier side of American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Notes From a Sea Diary offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever written. While Who Lost an American is a whirlwind spin through Paris and playboy clibs, New York publishing, Dublin pubs, Crete and Chicago as Algren adventures with Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre, Brendan Behan and Juliette Greco.
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One of the most neglected of modern American authors and also one of the most loved, NELSON ALGREN (1909-1981) was the recipient of the first National Book Award for Fiction and lauded by Hemingway as 'one of the two best authors in America.' Algren's work includes Never Come Morning (1945), The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) and A Walk on the Wide Side (1956).
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