Nelson
Algren
Writer
March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981
Credits:
Books:
A Walk on the Wild Side
(1956); Chicago, a City On the Make (poems) (1951); Never Come Morning (1942); Somebody
in Boots (1935); The Devil's Stocking (1983); The Last Carousel (1973); The Man
with the Golden Arm (1949); The Neon Wilderness (1947); The Texas Stories of
Nelson Algren (1995).
Movies and television:
Algren's Last Night (2003);
America After Dark (1957); Book Beat (1963–1974); Calendar (1963); Danger (1951);
Day at Night (1974); Down You Go (1951); Fearless Frank (1967); Goldstein (1964);
Nelson Algren Live (2016); Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day (2001); NET
Playhouse (1970); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Shoestring Theatre (1960); The
David Susskind Show (1963); The Man with the Golden Arm (1955); The Merv
Griffin Show (1965); The New Deal for Artists (1976); Today (1965); Walk on the
Wild Side (1962).