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Nelson Algren (March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. He may be best known for ''The Man with the Golden Arm'', a 1949 novel that won the National Book Award〔 and was adapted as a 1955 film of the same name. According to Harold Augenbraum, "in the late 1940s and early 1950s he was one of the best known literary writers in America." The lover of French writer Simone de Beauvoir, he was featured as the hero of her novel ''The Mandarins'', set in Paris and Chicago.〔 He is considered "a bard of the down-and-outer", based on this book and his novel ''A Walk on the Wild Side'' (1956).〔 The latter was adapted as a play of the same name, produced on Broadway. Its fame increased with Lou Reed's song of the same title.〔("1950" ). Harold Augenbraum and staff. ''60 Years of Honoring Great American Books'' (book-a-day blog), June 18, 2009. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-31. Augenbraum was the executive director of the National Book Foundation, marking the 60-year anniversary of the National Book Award for Fiction, as resumed after the war. Algren won the first one.〕 ==Early life== Algren was born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Goldie (née Kalisher) and Gerson Abraham. At the age of three, he moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois, where they lived in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on the South Side. His father was the son of a Swedish convert to Judaism, and his mother was of German Jewish descent. (She owned a candy store on the South Side.) When he was young, Algren's family lived at 7139 S. South Park Avenue (now S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive) in the Greater Grand Crossing section of the South Side.〔 When he was eight, his family moved from the far South Side to an apartment at 4834 N. Troy Street, in the North Side neighborhood of Albany Park. His father worked as an auto mechanic nearby on North Kedzie Avenue.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Nelson algren biography and notes )〕 In his essay ''Chicago: City on the Make'', Algren added autobiographical details: he recalled being teased by neighborhood children after moving to Troy Street because he was a fan of the South Side White Sox. They were fans of the North Side Chicago Cubs. This teasing increased when White Sox players were implicated in the 1920 Black Sox Scandal. Despite living most of his life on the North Side, Algren never changed his affiliation and remained a White Sox fan. Algren was educated in Chicago's public schools, graduated from Hibbard High School (now Roosevelt High School) and went on to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in journalism during the Great Depression in 1931.〔 During his time at the University of Illinois, he wrote for the ''Daily Illini'' student newspaper. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nelson Algren」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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