Looking forward to this Documentary: Algren

Michael Caplan states that his documentary of Nelson Algren should be out next year. This is a man who has been neglected far too long. I've found and read only one biography on him (Nelson Algren-by Bettinna Drew). Years ago, The Passionate Eye featured a documentary on the relationship between him and Simone de Beauvoir, which I believe was called "A Walk on the Wild Side", which was named after one of his books. He was a man who loved the Chicago he wrote about, yet most people don't know who he is.
Nelson Algren sold one of his books to Hollywood, yet wanted no part in its glam. That story was "The Man with the Golden Arm" and it starred Frank Sinatra. His friends continued to be the junkies and pimps that he wrote about. I must stress that they were his friends; he did not associate with them for the value of the thrill. These were his people. He felt comfortable in the dives of his neighbourhood where he'd always lived.
He made the acquantance of Simone de Beauvoir and she wrote of it in "The Mandarins". He was the physical love of her life. For years, they would travel back and forth between Paris and Chicago, at a time when such travel was no easy thing. Despite the language barrier, they had a strong bond. He wanted to marry her, yet she felt that she could not leave Jean Paul Sartre. When she died, she was wearing the ring he gave her.
He was a man who absolutely lived on his own terms. He was always willing to help out others, and thus died with little money of his own. His political beliefs won him little friends, for these were dangerous times thanks to the black listing of writers, directors and others. Joseph McCarthy made independent thought a risky thing.