From the Chitown ASMP bio of Art Shay on the group's site:
His book Nelson Algren's Chicago is a dauntless look at the city of the Man With The Golden Arm. The venerable author, and first National Book Award winner, Nelson Algren, examined relentlessly the hard streets of Chicago in what Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Malcom Cowley agreed was some of the finest fiction America has ever produced. Art Shay documented these streets photographically with his friend Algren in the early fifties with his friend Algren in the early fifties
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