Ralph Ellison
American novelist
Died when: 80 years 46 days (961 months)Star Sign: Pisces
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.
He also 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 he left upon his death.
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