Ellison, Ralph
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Name (Hebrew)
אליסון, רלף
Name (Latin)
Ellison, Ralph
Other forms of name
Ellison, Ralph Waldo
Date of birth
1914-03-01
Date of death
1994-04-16
Place of birth
Oklahoma City (Okla.)
Place of death
New York (N.Y.)
Associated country
United States
Occupation
College teachers
Essayists
Lecturers
Novelists
Authors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Ralph Waldo
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1914
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MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Ralph Waldo Ellison; essayist, fiction writer; born 1 March 1914 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States; received a scholarship from the state of Oklahoma to study music and musical composition at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama; in 1938 began working for the Federal Writers' Project; in 1953 became the first black writer to be awarded the National Book Award; lectured in Italy as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; although he never completed his senior year at Tuskegee Institute, he taught at Bard College between (1958-1961); visiting professor at the University of Chicago (1961) and at Rutgers and Yale (between 1962 and 1964); died 16 April 1994 in New York, New York, United States)
- Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Aug. 29, 2006(Ralph (Waldo) Ellison; b. Mar. 1, 1914, Oklahoma City, Okla.; d. Apr. 16, 1994, New York, N.Y.; writer, 1937-94)
- Encycl. American, 1990:v. 10, p. 255 (Ellison, Ralph Waldo, 1914- ; b. Oklahoma City, Okla. on Mar. 1, 1914)
- His Invisible man, 1952.
- Covo, J. The blinking eye, 1974:t.p. (Ralph Waldo Ellison, American writer)
- Encycl. American, 1990:v. 10, p. 255 (Ellison, Ralph Waldo, 1914- ; b. Oklahoma City, Okla. on 3/1/1914)
- Collier's encyclopedia:v. 9, p. 104 (Ellison, Ralph, 1914- ; American novelist and essayist)
- The collected essays of Ralph Ellison, 1995:CIP data sheet (d. 1994)
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Wikipedia description:
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. Ellison wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). The New York Times dubbed him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus". A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes Ellison left upon his death.
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