Ellison, Ralph

Ellison, Ralph

▪ American author and educator
born March 1, 1914, Oklahoma City, Okla., U.S.
died April 16, 1994, New York, N.Y.
 American teacher and writer who won eminence with his first and only novel, Invisible Man (1952).

      Ellison left Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1936 after three years' study of music and joined the Federal Writers' Project in New York City. In 1939 he began contributing short stories, reviews, and essays to various periodicals. Following service in World War II, he produced Invisible Man, which won the 1953 National Book Award for fiction. The story tells of a naive and idealistic Southern black youth who goes to Harlem, joins the fight against white oppression, and ends up ignored by his fellow blacks as well as by whites. After his novel appeared, Ellison published only two collections of essays, Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986). He lectured widely on black culture, folklore, and creative writing and taught at various American colleges and universities. He left a second novel unfinished at his death. Flying Home and Other Stories was published posthumously in 1996.

Additional Reading
Mark Busby, Ralph Ellison (1991); Robert G. O'Meally, The Craft of Ralph Ellison (1980); Robert O'Meally (ed.), New Essays on Invisible Man (1988); Alan Nadel, Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon (1988).

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