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Something similar might be said of Banks, who, like Algren, wrote in part to give voice to the marginalized.

He never sought the seedy side of urban life like Nelson Algren or Upton Sinclair.

When she won a Nelson Algren award for short fiction in 1993, she felt her career was about to take off.

Nelson Algren joined the Chicago office in a city reeling from the Depression.

To this catalogue of sagacity, Algren today might add, Never trust a group that claims to work for God, country or liberty, as any or all three are unlikely to be well-represented.