Thursday, August 24, 5 p.m., Readers Hall. General public. Free
with museum admission or $5 suggested donation for the event. Books will
be sold at AWM by after-words bookstore before and after the event
Most today know Algren as the radical, womanizing writer of The Man with the Golden Arm,
which won the first National Book Award, in 1950, but award-winning
reporter Mary Wisniewski offers a deeper portrait. Starting with his
childhood in the City of Big Shoulders, Wisniewski sheds new light on
the writer’s most momentous periods, from his on-again-off-again work
for the WPA to his stint as an uninspired soldier in World War II to his
long-distance affair with his most famous lover, Simone de Beauvoir, to
the sense of community and acceptance Algren found in the artist colony
of Sag Harbor before his death in 1981.
Presented by the Society of Midland Authors.
Algren a Life by Mary Wisnewski Hardback $33.00
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