The Ohio State University Libraries purchased from Nelson Algren his personal papers and manuscripts in two lots, 1961 andġ965. "The Nelson Algren Collection at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library of the Ohio State University." Acquisition Information Index Terms Authors, American-20th centuryĪuthors, American-20th century-CorrespondenceĪdministrative Information Preferred Citation Bruccoli numbers are listed following book manuscript titles. (All published work keyed to Nelson Algren: A Descriptive Bibliography by Matthew J. Farrell, Martha Gellhorn, Maxwell David Geismar, Madeleine Gobeil-Trudeau, Ernest Hemingway, Ingersoll and Brennan, Herman Kogan, Ken McCormick, Carl Sandburg, William Saroyan, William Targ, Carl Weissner and Joel Wells.īook manuscripts (chronological) short stories, essays, articles (chronological) poetry reviews correspondence personal memorabilia. Correspondents include: Simone de Beauvoir, Kay Boyle, Van Allen Bradley, Donadio and Associates, James T. "The Nelson Algren Collection at Ohio State." Tracings 5.1 (Winter 1990).Ĭhiefly literary manuscripts and correspondence also includes scrapbooks, clippings and photographs. Writing in the First Person, Nelson Algren, 1909-1981. His friendship with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, his later travels to Southesast Asia and the Far East, his continued concern about those oppressed by legal and political systems, were part of a lifetime commitment to observing and recording social processes in an implicitly political frame. Algren was always politically engaged with the left, although he did not believe in rigid party alliances or unexamined allegiances. The 50s were also the years of the McCarthy era. (Songster-Burnett) His most productive years were 1940-1960 when four novels and a prose-poem, "Chicago: City on the Make," were published.
Algren's career spanned over five decades and included four other novels, three travel books, and several collections of short stories. Nelson Algren (1909-1981) is most famous as the author of The Man with the Golden Arm, a novel which won the first National Book Award ever granted (1950). Literary manuscripts and correspondence of Nelson Algren. Detailed Description/Box and Folder Listing
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