# Chicago's Nelson Algren

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- Book: [Chicago's Nelson Algren](https://www.bookquiver.com/art-shay/chicagos-nelson-algren) ([Chicago's Nelson Algren.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/art-shay/chicagos-nelson-algren.md))
- Authors: [Art Shay](https://www.bookquiver.com/art-shay), [David Mamet](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-mamet)
- Publisher: Seven Stories Press
- ISBN: 978-15-8322-764-0
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2007-06-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

They met in 1949 when Art was a reporter for Life. Shay followed Algren around with a camera, gathering pictures for a photo-essay piece he was pitching to the magazine. Life didn’t pick up the article,...