- Conversations with Nelson AlgrenH.E.F. Donohue · New York: Hill and Wang, 1964
- Nelson Algren: A Life on the Wild SideBettina Drew · Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1989 · ISBN: 0292755430
- Nelson Algren's ChicagoPhotography by Art Shay · Urbana and Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1988 · ISBN: 025201586X
- Nelson and SimoneA play by Stuart McCarrell · Chicago: Xenia Press, 1998 · ISBN: 1880001128
- A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson AlgrenSimone de Beauvoir · New York: The New Press, 1998 · ISBN: 156584422X
- Playboy (XWG)"Ich bin ein Überlebender"March 1981 · pg. 100-101
- Chicago Tribune (US)"Writing the epilogue: Chicago Literary Hall of Fame inducts its first class"November 28, 2010 · Vol. Section 6, pg. 27 · by: Rick Kogan
- The Guardian (GB)"Seriously funny"January 1, 2005 · by: 'Studs Terkel' (qv)
- The Guardian (GB)"Funny side of the street"January 1, 2005 · by: 'Kurt Vonnegut'
- Chicago Magazine (US)"Nelson Algren's Last Year: "Algren in Exile""February 1988 · by: Joe Pintauro
- Chicago Sun-Times (US)"Algren's Golden Pen"May 13, 1981 · by: 'Mike Royko' (qv)
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