What country is there for a white man who isn't white? - Nelson Algren

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What country is there for a white man who isn't white?

Nelson Algren

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About Nelson Algren

(March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. Best known for two of his novels, The Man with the Golden Arm (1949, , adapted into ) and A Walk on the Wild Side (1956, adapted into ), Algren also wrote short stories collected in The Neon Wilderness (1947), and the book-length essays Chicago: City on the Make (1951) and Nonconformity (1953/1996).

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Alternative Names: Nelson Ahlgren Abraham

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[About his legacy:] I'll be all right so long as it has been written on some corner of a human heart. On the heart, it doesn't matter how you spell it.

[Chicago is] the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.

Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lay down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.