Nelson Algren
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Nelson Algren was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
Algren in 1956
Dunes cottage where Algren and de Beauvoir summered in Miller Beach, Indiana.
The Nelson Algren Memorial fountain in Chicago
Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was sh
Nelson Algren
…According to Harold Augenbraum, "in the late 1940s and early 1950s he was one of the best known literary writers in America." A lover of French writer Simone de Beauvoir, he is featured in her novel The Mandarins, set in Paris and Chicago. He was called "a sort of bard of the down-and-outer" based on this book, but also…
Beauvoir in 1967
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir at the Balzac Memorial
Antonio Núñez Jiménez, Beauvoir, Sartre and Che Guevara in Cuba, 1960.