Ralph Ellison
Also known as Ralph Waldo Ellison
American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994)
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- Born
- 1 March 1914
- Died
- 16 April 1994
- Works
- 35
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- 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, 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".
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