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NOVELISTS > novelist > Nelson Algren
I went out...
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I went out there [Hollywood] for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.
Source: In Writers at Work, First Series, ed. by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.
-- Nelson Algren, (Mar 28 1901-1981), US novelist; His realistic novel, The Man with the Golden Arm, about drug addiction was made into a 1955 film with Frank Sinatra.