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PRINCIPAL WORKS

Short Fiction

The Neon Wilderness 1947

*Nelson Algren's Own Book of Lonesome Monsters [editor] 1962

The Last Carousel (short stories, essays, sketches) 1973

The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren 1995

Other Major Works

Somebody in Boots (novel) 1935

Never Come Morning (novel) 1942

The Man with the Golden Arm (novel) 1949

Chicago: City on the Make (prose poem) 1951

A Walk on the Wild Side (novel) 1956

A Walk on the Wild Side (play) 1960

Who Lost an American? (nonfiction) 1963

Notes from a Sea Diary: Hemingway All the Way (nonfiction) 1965

Calhoun: Roman eines Verbrechens [The Devil's Stocking] (novel) 1981

Nonconformity: Writing on Writing (nonfiction) 1996

Algren wrote the introduction and contributed one short story, "The House of the...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. John Woodburn (review date 1947)
   2. Catherine Meredith Brown (review date 1947)
   3. George Bluestone (essay date 1957)
   4. Maxwell Geismar (essay date 1958)
   5. Haskel Frankel (review date 1963)
   6. R. W. Lid (essay date 1966)
   7. Daniel R. Silkowski (essay date 1971)
   8. James R. Frakes (review date 1973)
   9. Saul Maloff (review date 1974)
   10. Commonweal (review date 1947)
   11. R. W. Lid (essay date 1975)
   12. Martha Heasley Cox and Wayne Chatterton (essay date 1975)
   13. Tom Carson (essay date 1986)
   14. Kirkus Reviews (review date 1995)
   15. Albert E. Wilhelm (review date 1995)
   16. Bettina Drew (essay date 1995)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright