H. Maragou on R. Ward’s collection of critical essays : Nelson Algren

Robert Ward, ed. Nelson Algren: A Collection of Critical Essays. New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 188 pp. (Hardcover) ISBN-0 8386 4108 3 This collection of critical essays, edited by Robert Ward, is the first critical reader dealing with the oeuvre of Nelson Algren, an author whose rise to literary fame in the 1940s was as spectacular as his plunge into obscurity less than two decades later. In his introduction to this collection that attempts to restore Nelson Algren...