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Ralph Ellison
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American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1 March 1914
- Died
- 16 April 1994
- Works
- 35
Top works
- The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
- Words of Ages
- Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
- Juneteenth (Revised)
- Invisible Man
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Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1914 – April 16, 1994) was a novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man (ISBN 0-679-60139-2), which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act, a collection of political, social and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ralph+Ellison">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
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Quotes
- “[T]he painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy, but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.”
- “Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.”
- “Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.[…] For if the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison and destroy.”
- “[T]here must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.”
- “Our task then is always to challenge the apparent forms of reality—that is, the fixed meaning and values of the few—and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false faces, and on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.”
- “All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel—and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?—is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Ralph Waldo Ellison , ( 1913-03-01 ) March 1, 1913, Oklahoma City , Oklahoma, U.S.
- Died
- April 16, 1994 (1994-04-16) (aged 81), New York City, U.S.
- Occupation
- Writer
- Education
- Tuskegee University
- Genre
- Essay, criticism, novel, short story
- Notable works
- Invisible Man (1952)
- Notable awards
- National Book Award (1953) National Medal of Arts (1985)
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- Ralph Ellison photo portrait seated.jpg
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- Ralph Waldo Ellison
- date of birth
- 1914-03-01
- date of death
- 1994-04-16
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Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.
Ellison wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). The New York Times dubbed him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus".