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Shaun Usher
Dec 21, 2020
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Image: Beloved Chicago Man: Letters to Nelson Algren

In Chicago in 1947, French writer Simone de Beauvoir met Nelson Algren, the American novelist best known for The Man with the Golden Arm (1949). For years their romance ebbed and flowed, and in 1953 Algren remarried his ex-wife, Amanda Kontowicz, effectively ending the transatlantic affair. However, he…

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