Ralph ellison biography summary
Ralph ellison biography summary
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Ralph Ellison
American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (–)
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, [a] – April 16, ) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in [2]
Ellison wrote Shadow and Act (), a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory ().[3]The New York Times dubbed him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus".[4]
A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes Ellison left upon his death.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in [5]
Early life
Ralph Waldo Ellison, named after Ralph Waldo Emerson,[6] was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Lewis Alfred Ellison and Ida Millsap, on March 1, He was the second of three sons; firstborn Alfred died in infancy, and younger brother Herbert Maurice (or Millsap) was