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Happy Birthday To Paterson's Nelson Algren

PATERSON, N.J. -- Happy Birthday to Paterson's Nelson Algren who would have turned 107 on Monday.

Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren

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Algren, a writer who won a National Book Award, was born on March 28, 1909 in Detroit and died May 9, 1981 at 72.

He spent a few of his life in Paterson, after becoming fascinated with the city while researching an article on the trial of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the prize fighter who had been found guilty of double murder. 

His 1956 book "Walk on the Wild Side" was adapted as a Broadway play of the same name. Its fame increased with Lou Reed's song of the same title.

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