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The Nelson Algren Museum in Gary's Miller neighborhood is offering tours and planning an event with Algren biographer Colin Asher, who's turned up in his research much of Algren's massive FBI file, which was nearly three times as long as the average novel.

Asher, whose book "Never a Lovely So, Real" will be published in April, will speak at the museum at 541 S. Lake St. at 7 p.m. April 26. The instructor at City University of New York, a 2015/2016 Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, will give a talk revealing what the Federal Bureau of Investigation had on Algren, the National Book Award-winning author of "The Man with the Golden Arm," a tale of despair and drug addiction that was adapted into a movie with Frank Sinatra.

Algren is often thought of as a Chicago author, but he split his time between the city and a lake house he bought in Miller with the proceeds from "The Man with the Golden Arm," where he famously had a tryst with the celebrated French writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir.

Asher has been working for years on the biography, whose title alludes to Algren's famous quote about Chicago in "Chicago: City on the Make:" “Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real."