With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk in the Wild Side has found a place in the imaginations of all generations since it ...

'This is a man writing and you should not read it if you cannot take a punch. . . . Mr. Algren, boy, you are good.'-Ernest Hemingway 'Algren is an artist whose sympathy is as large as Victor Hugo's, an artist who ranks . . . among our...

"Once you've become a part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real."Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Al...

Nelson Algren was a renowned writer, known for his penetrating and influential social novels such as The Man With the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Originally published in 1935, Somebody in Boots was Algren's first novel, ba...