Algren (24 page)

The Albany Park two-flat where Algren lived with his parents from the age of eleven until he went to college. The Abrahams lost the house during the Depression. M
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Algren's joke prediction for his future in his high school yearbook—he imagined himself staying in the tire repair business.
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Algren's graduation picture from Roosevelt High School. O
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Algren on the shores of Lake Michigan with a few bathing beauties, 1935. O
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Nelson and Amanda Kontowicz, his first and second wife, together at a restaurant. O
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Amanda standing alone. She had labeled this photograph “Tired.” O
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Algren in uniform at Camp Maxey, Texas. O
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Algren in a formal portrait in his army dress uniform. O
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Algren sitting beneath a viaduct in Chicago. L
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Simone de Beauvoir by a brick wall. P
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Nelson Algren with Simone de Beauvoir. A
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Simone de Beauvoir with Richard Wright in New York. O
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