Nelson Algren: A Life on the Wild Side

Calling upon scores of interviews and hundreds of pages of manuscripts and correspondence, Bettina Drew's vivid narrative captures the essence of a complex nonconformist whose tremendous talent lives on through his writing. It is a walk on the wild side, with a man who knew it as no other.

• Author
• Bettina Drew

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 416

• Publisher
• University of Texas Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780292755437

• Characters
• Nelson Algren

• Settings
• Chicago, Illinois

• Genres
• biography

• Release date
• 1991