Algren's Influence Continues to Present Day

This Jameson story just gets curiouser and curiouser all the time. Check out the latest headline:

"Algren's writings led fugitive to stay" (scroll halfway down)

"He was almost immediately part of the scene,'' recalled Warren Leming, vice chairman of the Nelson Algren Committee, which formed in 1989. "Algren was somebody he could identify with, someone whose background was similar to his, someone who lived an outsider type of existence.''

I'm sure Algren would have been touched, given his sympathy for those on the margins of respectable society...even two-time murderers.