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AUTHORS: Ralph Ellison |
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Ralph Ellison was born in 1914, in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was educated at Tuskegee
Institute, now Tuskegee University, which he attended
on a music scholarship. In 1936 he moved to New York
and began writing, and during WWII he served as a
Marine. The Invisible Man is his only novel,
and best known work. He won the National Book Award
for fiction in 1953. The manuscript for his second
novel was lost in a fire in 1967. He taught and
lectured widely, served on councils and was a trustee
for the arts. In 1994, Ellison died of cancer at his
home in New York.
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