Author photo. World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)

Nelson Algren (1909–1981)

Author of The Man with the Golden Arm

Includes the names: Nelson Algen, Nelson Algren, Nelsen Algren, Nelson Algren, Nelson Algreen

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TitleCopiesReviewsRatingsAverageMedianStd. dev.
The Man with the Golden Arm5536773.924.000.88
A Walk on the Wild Side: A Novel3555503.884.000.90
Chicago: City on the Make: 50th Anniversary Edition, Newly Annotated147 284.464.500.55
The Neon Wilderness163 253.944.000.84
Never come morning1066144.144.000.93
Somebody in boots66184.134.000.41
Nonconformity59 73.643.000.79
The Devil's Stocking30 52.903.000.66
Nelson Algren's Own Book of Lonesome Monsters28 43.503.500.50
The Last Carousel30 33.674.000.47
Entrapment and Other Writings7 24.504.500.50
America Eats (Iowa Szathmary Culinary Arts Series)23 23.503.500.50
The Neon Wilderness the Man with the Golden Arm and a Walk on the Wild Side19 13.003.00 
A Bottle of Milk for Mother (Interpreting literature - 5th Edition)3 13.503.50 
Un Meuble Dans la Penombre1 14.004.00 
Who Lost an American?10 14.004.00 
Notes from a Sea Diary: Hemingway All the Way23 14.004.00 
Neon Wilderness the Man With the Golden Arm a Walk on the Wild Side1     
Jungle, The (prev pubbed as: Somebody in Boots) (Avon T-334) [First Paperback Edition]1     
Man With the Golden Arm 1ST Edition1     
From "Chicago: City on the Make" (Short Story)1     
Algren at Sea: Notes from A Seas Diary & Algren at Sea - The Travel Writings3     
Galena guide1     
Juvenile Jungle1     
The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren26     
He Swung And He Missed4     
The True Story Of Bonnie & Clyde, (a Signet Book, P-3437)2     

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