initial meeting of Algren and, 224–25
isolation of, 384, 386
and Last Carousel, 445
Le Sang des autres (Blood of Others), 237
and Les Temps modernes, 233, 296
The Mandarins, 354, 355, 384, 407
on the road in Europe with, 264–65, 389
and Sartre, 233, 238, 240, 252, 255, 290, 384, 385, 386, 389, 407n
The Second Sex, 231n, 240, 263–64
sightseeing in Chicago with, 225–28, 229, 238, 239
sightseeing in Paris with, 261–63, 385–90
travel in US and Mexico with, 250–54
Bechtold, Eugene, 127
Behan, Brendan, 385
Belafonte, Harry, 465
Bello, Alfred, 449, 450, 452, 460, 466
Bellow, Saul, 5, 146, 410
Humboldt’s Gift, 398n
Bendyk, Betty Ann (Algren), 420–25, 428, 429, 436
Bennett, Eric, Workshops of Empire, 357n
Berkley Medallion, 403
Best American Short Stories, 188
Big Injun (nom de guerre), 395–97
Bill of Rights, 248, 288
Blackie and Norma, 347–48
Blake, James, 295–97, 313, 320, 415, 476
Blue, Jesse:
and Algren’s breakdown, 360
Algren’s friendship with, 230, 295, 320, 329, 347–49, 350, 373
and Algren’s money, 371–72
death of, 476
and Fallonites, 149, 295
lifestyle of, 329–30, 347–48
and Never Come Morning, 327
Blue, Trixie, 320, 347–48
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 100–101, 151
Book Digest, 277
Book Find Club, 277
Book of the Month Club, 164
Borman, Ed, 53n
Bost, Jacques-Laurent, 261
Bowker, John, 199
Boyce, William D., 28–29
Boyle, Kay, xiii, 432–33, 441, 485
Boynton, H. W., 113–14
Boy Scouts of America, 29
Bradley, Arthur Dexter, 449, 450, 452, 460
Bradley, Van Allen, 307, 311, 419, 446–47
Brand, Millen, 289, 322, 326
Bread Loaf Writers Workshop, Vermont, 415–16
Brent, Stuart, 267
Breslin, Jimmy, xiii, 471
Breton, André, 218
Brooks, Geraldine, 193
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 485
Broonzy, Big Bill, 385
Bruccoli, Matthew, 424
Buckley, Lord, 295
Buckley, William F., 432
Budenz, Louis, xiv, 258, 304, 313–16, 364, 382
Burgess, Ernest, 100
Burns, Ben, 439
Burroughs, William, 476
Butler, Margaret, 208
Butler, Tom (pseud.), 140
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 49, 50, 81
California Quarterly, 311
Calithump, 109
Camp Maxey, Texas, 192, 194–97, 199
Camp Penally, Wales, 200
Camus, Albert, 386
The Stranger, 237
Capone, Al, 41
Carmichael, Stokeley, 424
Carpentier, Georges, 312
Carson, Tom, 222
Carter, Rubin “Hurricane,” 448–53, 459, 460, 462, 463–68, 472, 473–75, 481
Carver, Raymond, 443
Cash, Johnny, 465
Castro, Fidel, 386
Cau, Jean, 261
Cazarian, Ed, 158–59, 163
Cermak, Anton, 62
Chaplin, Charlie, 258
Chatterton, Wayne, 75n
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 49, 81
Chekhov, Anton, 307
Chicago:
Algren’s decision to leave, 453–55
Algren’s flat on West Wabansia in, 210–11, 220, 230, 239, 286, 386
Algren’s moves within, 167–68, 374–75, 379–80
Algren’s perception of changes in, 375, 386, 387, 392, 453–54
drugs in, 242–43, 304
as gangster’s town, 41–43, 211
in Great Depression, 60–63
Haymarket Square riot in, 226
history of, 287, 298, 392
newspapers published in, 60
Palmer House in, 223–24, 225, 227, 385
photo book about, 287, 297, 324
postwar, 209–12, 218, 269–70
Rat Alley in, 144–45, 146–47, 150, 151, 157, 158, 159, 162, 171
26-girls in, 234, 239
World’s Columbian Exposition “White City” (1893), 13–14, 24, 26, 98, 100, 144
World’s Fair (1933–1934), 100, 101, 106, 113
and World War II, 190, 191, 209
Chicago Daily News, 301, 307, 311, 402, 409, 419, 446, 453, 465
Chicago Fiction Guild, 188
Chicago Free Press, 438
Chicago Health Department, 186–87
Chicago Public Library, 183, 184, 356
Chicago Sun-Times, 287, 355, 446, 454
Chicago Tribune, 284, 355–56, 383, 393, 408, 418, 446, 453, 454
Chicago White Sox, 27
World Series (1919) Black Sox scandal, 34, 445
Chicago: City on the Make (Algren), 4, 205, 300–301, 303, 307, 324, 338, 380–81, 440
Cicotte, Eddie, 27
Cincinnati Kid (poker player), 427
City News Bureau of Chicago, 58–59, 60, 63
Clark, Eleanor, 142n
Clark, Thomas Arkle, 52–53
Cleveland, Grover, 13
Cody, Buffalo Bill, 13
Cold War, 248, 249, 256, 262, 290, 303
Collins, Eddie, 27
Columbian Exposition “White City,” see World’s Columbian Exposition
Columbia Pictures, 332
Commonwealth College, 109
Communist Manifesto, 133
Communist Party:
Aaron as member of, 103–4, 140, 142–43
Algren as member of, xiv–xv, 102, 120, 133–34, 143, 146, 169, 198n, 199, 290, 314–15, 360, 405–6, 432
Aptheker as member of, 196
divisions within, 142–43, 152
and Fallonites, 155
and Great Depression, 61–63, 84, 256
and Hollywood blacklist, 289–90, 297, 382
and Hollywood Ten, xiv–xv, 248–49, 288–90, 314, 317
and HUAC, 169, 248, 256, 288–90, 297, 304, 315
and Internal Security Act, 255–56, 305, 315
and John Reed Club, 84
and loyalty tests, 306–7
and McCarthy, 287–88, 290, 304, 306, 315, 324, 382, 406, 419
passports denied to members of, 305
and proletarian literature movement, 83–85, 107, 142
on racial equality, 106, 107
and Red Scare, xiv, 169, 248–49, 256–58, 268, 287, 289–90, 303, 304, 305, 326, 365, 382–83, 406, 486
and Spanish Civil War, 139
Title 22, Federal Regulation, 312n
union recruitment by, 137
Wright as member of, 105, 143, 289
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, 125
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 148
Conroy, Jack, 82–83, 114, 120, 133, 147–53, 168, 425
Algren’s friendship with, 94, 150–51, 153–54, 170, 171, 193, 236, 251, 267, 295, 329, 355, 382, 519
Algren’s respect for writing of, 91, 261
and Algren’s writing, 99, 113
and Anvil, 77, 82, 103, 148
The Drunkard’s Warning, 151–53
fade to obscurity, 148, 149, 170, 326, 432
and Fallon, 148–49, 155
and John Reed Club, 90, 101
and League of American Writers, 118, 119, 152–53
and New Anvil, 150, 151, 161, 170n, 318n
and Red Scare, 290
and Venereal Disease Control Project, 186–87
and Writers’ Project, 150–51, 154, 162
Conversations with Nelson Algren (Donohue), 75n, 280n, 281n, 402–9, 486, 493–94
Cooper, Gary, 248
Corbett, Gentleman Jim, 15
Corbett, Helen, 436
Costello, Baldy, 34
Counterattack (anti-Communist group), 289
Cowley, Malcolm, 84n, 183, 278, 380, 480
Cox, Martha Heasley, 75n
Crane, Stephen, 356
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, 134
Cuba:
Algren in, 350–52
Beauvoir in, 385, 386
Cudahy, Sheila, 349
Curtis, Benton, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 45–46, 72–75
Daily Illini, 57, 60
Daily Worker, 120, 143, 258
Dakota Sioux, 8–9
Davies, Joseph, 142n
Davis, Frank Marshall, 145, 146
Davis, William J., 314
Day, Davey “Human String Bean,” 161n
DeLillo, Don, xiii, 413–14, 415, 416, 421, 431
Americana, 417
Despres, Len, 50, 295, 485
Deutch, Stephen and Helene, 439–41, 453, 468, 469, 483, 485
Devil’s Stocking, The (Algren), 471–72, 473–77, 481, 482, 485, 486
DeVries, Peter, 146
Dickens, Charles, xvi, 3, 182
Dickey, James, 417n
Dies Committee, see House Un-American Activities Committee
Dillon, George, 146
Disney, Walt, 248, 350
Divine, Rev. Major Jealous “Father,” 120
Djemail, Hassine Ameur, 264
Doctorow, E. L., 479
Donadio, Candida, 380, 403, 409, 416, 468, 474, 475, 484
Donohue, H. E. F. “Shag,” 402–9
Dos Passos, John, 319, 432
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, xvi, 3, 134, 263, 278, 319, 380, 418
Doubleday and Company:
and Algren’s finances, 246, 320–21, 325, 328
and Algren’s HUAC subpoena, 342, 346, 364–65
and censorship, 346
and Chicago photo book, 287, 297
and Man with the Golden Arm, 279, 320
and Neon Wilderness, 222
and Never Come Morning, 214–17
and Nonconformity, 322n, 486
and Somebody in Boots, 323
and Walk on the Wild Side, 342, 343, 345–47, 349
see also McCormick, Kenneth
Douglas, Paul, 284
Dreiser, Theodore, 90, 118, 447
Sister Carrie, 134
Drew, Bettina, 315n
Dupee, Fred, 142n
Durocher, Leo, 312
Dylan, Bob, 464
Ebert, Roger, 50, 438
Edelstein, Michael, 377
Edwards, Cas, 96
Ehrlich, Leonard, 326
Einstein, Albert, 141
Ellison, Burns, “The First Annual Nelson Algren Memorial Poker Game,” 428n
El Paso, Texas, Algren arrested in, 76
Engle, Paul, 424, 426n
Entrapment and Other Writings (Algren), xii, 370n
Esquire, 146, 450, 452
Ethiopia, 132, 133
Faber, Red, 27
Fadiman, Clifton, 284–85
Faheen, George, 438n
Fallon, Lawrence “Bud,” 148–49, 155–57, 182, 184, 230, 236, 295, 320, 329, 476
Fallonites, 149, 154–57, 162, 193, 295
Fanon, Frantz, 474
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 349, 352, 354, 360, 367
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 406n
Farrell, Dorothy, 121, 208–9
Farrell, James T., 85, 106–7, 120, 121, 152, 182, 318, 355
Studs Lonigan, 183
Young Lonigan, 83
Faulkner, William, xiii, 85, 187, 254, 278, 279, 372, 402
Sanctuary, 237
FBI:
Algren investigated by, xiv–xv, 4, 169, 198–99, 313–16, 359, 360, 364, 365, 420, 436, 486, 493
Algren’s concerns about, 304
and Algren’s legacy, 486–87
informants of, xiv–xv, 258, 304, 313–14
Fearing, Kenneth, 326
Fearless Frank (film), 425
Federal Writers’ Project, 137–38, 143, 454
Felsenthal, Rabbi Bernhard, 7–8n, 9
Fiedler, Leslie, 356
Finch, Russell, 149, 162–63, 189
Fine, Donald, 474–76
Finer, Roy, 470, 475, 478, 481, 483
Fire Island, Algren on, 410–14, 416
First Amendment, 248
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 292, 305–6, 312, 319
Flat Top (former prostitute), 438
Fletcher, J. S., 125
Folsom, Franklin, 152, 153
Fonda, Jane, xiii, 403
Forchheimer, Paul, 90, 94, 95, 97
Ford, Richard, 443
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 192–93
Four Walls Eight Windows, 486
France, Anatole, 118
Franco, Gen. Francisco, 168, 388
Freedom Discs, 323
Freedom of Information Act, 315n
Freud, Sigmund, 116
Friedan, Betty, xiii, 479
Friedkin, Billy, 396
Friedkin, William, 465
Friedman, Bruce Jay, 410–12
Friedman, Josh, 410–11
Gaiser, Carolyn, 480–81
Galena, Illinois, guide to, 137–38, 145
Gallagher, Jim, 467–68
Gallimard, 261
Garfield, John, 280, 281, 282, 289, 297
Gary Post-Tribune, 315
Geismar, Maxwell, 222, 322, 326, 330, 348, 355, 359, 374, 375, 382, 446
Gellhorn, Martha (Hemingway), xiii, 184–85, 193, 213
Germany:
and Nazi Party, 132–33
and war, 132, 133, 139, 168–69
Gershman, Isaac, 58–59
Giardello, Joey, 449
Gibson, Zenobia, 154
Gilbert, Lou “Gigi,” 145
Gilroy (poker buddy), 427–28
Ginsberg, Allen, 476
Ginsberg, Louis, 459
Gitlin, Murray, 79–81
Gobeil, Madeleine, 400
Gods Gather, The (Algren; working title), 86–87, 89; see also Somebody in Boots
Gogol, Nikolai, 254
Gold, Mike, 120
Jews without Money, 83, 119
Goldstein (film), 415
Goodman, Paul, Growing Up Absurd, 416
Gover, Robert, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, 416–17
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 414, 419, 441–42, 446–47, 465
Graves, Frank X., 461
Great Depression:
Algren on the road during, 75n, 307
and Algren’s family, 98–99, 127–28
and Communist Party, 61–63, 84, 256
and disintegration of social fabric, 60–63, 64, 138
and generation gap, 160
hope for ending of, 100
and unemployment, 59, 64, 72, 98, 102
writers on, 81, 86, 110
Great Migration, 461
Gréco, Juliette, 391
Greenlease, Bobby, 348
Groening, Roger, 470, 475, 478
Gross, Diana, 61–62
Guevara, Che, 386
Guggenheim, Mary, 217–18, 219–20, 224, 230–31, 232
Guthrie, Woody, 439
Bound for Glory, 190
Guyonnet, René, 261
Hackensack, New Jersey, Algren in, 469
Hackett, Bill, 235, 241, 243, 279–84, 332, 335–36
Hagen, Micky, 428
Hagglund, B. C., 82
Hammill, Pete, 483
Hand, Judge Learned, 312
Hanock, Jerome, 37, 38, 41, 43, 45–46
Harmon, Lily, 421
Harper & Brothers, 171, 183, 185, 190, 198, 215, 279
Harper’s Bazaar, 220, 264, 284, 423
Hart, Pearl, 303
Harvey, La
urence, 403
Haywood, Harry, 139
Hefner, Hugh, 392
Heirens, William, 226
Heller, Joseph, 402, 426
Catch-22, 415
Hemingway, Ernest, 380, 408, 426, 447, 457
Algren’s essay about, 402, 414, 417–19
on Algren’s writing, xiii, 5, 185, 278–79, 351
in Cuba, 350–52
death of, 399–400
in Europe, 83
and Spanish Civil War, 141–42
Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, 184-85, 193, 213
Henle, James, 85–86, 88, 89, 90, 94, 106–7, 121
Herbst, Josephine, 83
Herman, Jan, 315n, 476–77, 479, 481, 483, 485
Hill & Wang, 403, 406n
Hirst, Don, 434
Hitler, Adolph, 84, 108, 132, 133, 139, 201
Hogan, Fred, 448, 450, 452–53, 460, 462, 469, 472, 474
Holiday, 287, 298–300, 356
Hollywood blacklist, 289–90, 297, 382
Hollywood Ten, xv, 248–49, 288–90, 314, 317
Hollywood Ten, The (film), 288
Hoover, Herbert, 60
Hoover, J. Edgar, 169, 314
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC):
Algren subpoenaed by, xv, 341–42, 345, 346, 364–65
and Communist Party, 169, 248, 256, 288–90, 297, 304, 315
and FBI, 169, 198, 315
and Hollywood Ten, 248, 288–89
as witch hunt, 386
Hughes, Langston, 118
Hunter, Oscar, 139
Hurricane Trust Defense Committee, 465
Hurston, Zora Neale, 85
Huxley, Aldous, 447
Illinois Press Association, 57, 63, 67
Illinois Workers Alliance, 135
Illinois Writers’ Project:
Algren released by, 162, 174, 184
Algren’s work for, 136–38, 144, 145–46, 154, 162
Alsberg as head of, 156
and Conroy, 150–51, 154, 162
and Federal Writers’ Project, 137, 143
and Great Depression, 138
staff fired by, 162, 174
and WPA, 137, 454
and Wright, 137, 164
Indiana University, 311
Ingersoll, Elizabeth, 215, 246
Ingersoll & Brennan, 369–70
Internal Security Act (1950), 255–56, 305, 315
“Internationale, The,” 101, 120
International Literature, 100
Iowa Writers Workshop, 424–29, 430
Irving, John, 479
Jack (tenant/addict), 234–35, 236, 241–43, 250, 282
Jackson, Mahalia, 385
Jackson, Shoeless Joe, 27
Jaffe Agency, 331, 332, 334–35
Jazz Ltd., Chicago, 382
Jellious Widow (horse), 372, 438
Jewish People’s Institute, Lawndale, 79
Jews, pogroms of, 169
Joffe, Bernice Abraham, see Abraham, Bernice
Joffe, Morris, 40–41, 59, 99, 129, 159, 171–72
John Reed Club, 99, 103, 107–8, 137
and Algren, 91, 100–102, 133
and Communist Party, 84
former members of, 145
and League of American Writers, 108, 118