Editing Nelson Algren (section)

==Honors and awards==
[[File:Polonia Triangle fountain.jpg|thumb|The Nelson Algren Memorial fountain in Chicago]]

Algren won his first [[O. Henry Award]] for his short story "The Brother's House" (published in ''[[Story (magazine)|Story Magazine]]'') in 1935. His short stories "A Bottle of Milk for Mother (Biceps)" (published in the ''[[Southern Review]]'') and "The Captain is Impaled" (''[[Harper's Magazine]]'') were O. Henry Award winners in 1941 and 1950, respectively.<ref>{{cite web|title=O. Henry Award Winners 1919-1999|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/ohenry/0999/winnerslist.html|publisher=Random House|access-date=September 7, 2011}}</ref> None of the stories won the first, second or third place awards but were included in the annual collection of O. Henry Award stories.

''[[The Man with the Golden Arm (novel)|The Man with the Golden Arm]]'' won the [[National Book Award for Fiction]] in 1950.<ref name=nba1950 />

In 1947 Algren won an Arts and Letters Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the forerunner to the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]. In 1974 the Institute awarded him the Award of Merit Medal for the novel. And three months before he died in 1981, Algren was elected to the Academy of Arts and Letters.

Algren was also honored in 1998 with the Nelson Algren Fountain<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbcchicago.com/projects/nelson-algren-fountain/ |title=Nelson Algren Fountain - PBC Chicago |publisher=PBCChicago.com |date=July 18, 2007 |access-date=March 13, 2018}}</ref> located in Chicago's [[Polish Triangle]], in what had been the heart of [[Polish Downtown]], the area that figured as the inspiration for much of his work. Appropriately enough, [[Division Street (Chicago)|Division Street]], Algren's favorite street as well as the onetime ''Polish Broadway'', runs right past it.<ref name="ShayP118"/>

In 2010, Algren was posthumously inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://chicagoliteraryhof.org/inductees/profile/nelson-algren |title=Nelson Algren |date=2010 |website=Chicago Literary Hall of Fame |language=en |access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref>