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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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