{"id":332896,"date":"2021-10-01T08:47:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T08:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=215628"},"modified":"2021-10-01T08:47:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T08:47:37","slug":"a-great-american-author-of-proletarian-literature-is-ready-for-his-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/01\/a-great-american-author-of-proletarian-literature-is-ready-for-his-close-up\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great American Author of Proletarian Literature is Ready for His Close Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algren is a nonfiction biopic about the first author to win the National Book Award for Fiction. At a New York ceremony in 1950 former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt presented that coveted accolade to Nelson Algren for The Man with the Golden Arm. Previously, Algren \u2013 who was born 1909 in Detroit and moved to  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/01\/a-great-american-author-of-proletarian-literature-is-ready-for-his-close-up\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/01\/a-great-american-author-of-proletarian-literature-is-ready-for-his-close-up\/\">A Great American Author of Proletarian Literature is Ready for His Close Up<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/01\/a-great-american-author-of-proletarian-literature-is-ready-for-his-close-up\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algren is a nonfiction biopic about the first author to win the National Book Award for Fiction. At a New York ceremony in 1950 former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt presented that coveted accolade to Nelson Algren for The Man with the Golden Arm. Previo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333373,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332896\/revisions\/333373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}