AUTHORS: Ralph Ellison

  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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