Chicago: City on the Make

Name: Chicago: City on the Make
Author: Nelson Algren

by Nelson Algren

Poetic essay portrait of Chicago's streets, hustlers, and working-class neighborhoods

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Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren wrote about the criminal underclass of Chicago with ferocious sympathy and lyrical prose, earning him the first National Book Award for The Man with the Golden Arm. Simone de Beauvoir called him the greatest American writer.

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