Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1913http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1420 – April 16, 1994) was an African American scholar and writer. He was born Ralph Waldo Ellison in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, named by his father after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison was best known for his novel Invisible Man (ISBN 0679601392), which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). Research by Lawrence Jackson, Ellison's biographer, has established that he was born a year earlier than had been previously thought.

Related works

• Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray (with Albert Murray) (ISBN 0375503676)
• Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings (ISBN 0679640347)
• The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison (1995, ISBN 0679601767)
• Flying Home: and Other Stories (1996)