PAST EVENTS
AUG 5, 2022
NOV 6, 2022
SEPT 8, 2022
JUNE 21, 2023
What You Don't Know About Nelson Algren
Bill Savage is the co-editor of the 50th anniversary critical edition of Algren’s The Man with the Golden Arm, and provided annotations for the 60th anniversary edition of Chicago: City on the Make. Savage teaches Chicago literature, history, and culture at Northwestern University and the Newberry Library of Chicago.
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Richard Bales
Meet Richard Bales,
the preeminent
scholar on Algren's
"Lost" works. Bales is
the author of newly
published The Short
Writings of Nelson Algren:
A Study of His
Stories, Essays, Articles, Reviews, Poems
and Other Literature.
Original Manuscript
70 + signed original manuscripts of Algren’s magazine articles stored in a plastic bin since his move from Chicago to the east coast. Nearly 50 years.
Hear how the Nelson Algren Museum of Miller Beach acquired these treasures.
Richard Bales and Sue Rutsen will speak.
Algren Wives
We Know About His Girlfriends. What About His Wives?
Mary Wisniewski speaking on Algren's Wives
Long-time Algren Museum friend, Mary Wisniewski is a Chicago reporter, author and teacher. She won the Society of Midland Authors award for best biography for her "Algren: A Life," A former Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times columnist who has also covered the Midwest for Reuters, Wisniewski has won numerous awards for reporting. She teaches creative writing and is a theater and book critic. She is a frequent contributor to "Newcity" and "Chicago" magazine.
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