Tag: Nelson Algren

• Book review, signing: New book offers fresh take on Gary/Chicago resident, Nelson Algren

  

  Mary Wisniewski was a college student when she first discovered the writings of Chicago writer Nelson Algren. “Many of his books were set in Wicker Park where my family was from which intrigued me,” says Wisniewski, noting that though Algren’s novels are about shady characters, drug addicts, grifters, drifters and those on the margins of…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  December 8, 2018

  Author event, Biography, Chicago

  Biography, Chicago Author Event, Chicago Public Library, Nelson Algren