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African-American History
Ralph Ellison
Born in Oklahoma on March 1, 1914, Ralph Waldo Ellison is best known
nationally and internationally for his work, Invisible Man (1952), for
which he won a National Book Award for fiction in 1953.
Ellison, a novelist, sculptor, amateur photographer, electrician, actor
and huntsman, taught at several American colleges and universities.
It was while as a student working in the library at Tuskegee University
that he began to explore the world of literature. In 1936, Ellison met
Richard Wright, who encouraged him to write. Ellison's writing career began
with a short story, "Hymie Bull."
It was when he moved to New York during the Harlem Renaissance, that
Ellison wrote the critically acclaimed Invisible Man. Finding the stereotypes
placed on African Americans in America unacceptable, Ellison refused to
depict them as such in his work. At the time of his death on April 16,
1994, Ellison had not yet published his second novel, begun in 1958 and
lost in a fire at his summer home in Massachusetts.
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