Ralph Waldo Ellison was a novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is 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). Research by Lawrence Jackson, one of Ellison's biographers, has established that he was born a year earlier than had been previously thought.
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American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994)
| Born | 1 March 1914 |
| Died | 16 April 1994 |
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Ralph Ellison
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American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994)
| Born | 1 March 1914 |
| Died | 16 April 1994 |
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- OLID: OL32983A
- BookBrainz: 43c22bdd-1efc-41a4-a52d-3239b71c4ded
- GoodReads: 7508
- ISNI: 0000000121178826
- IMDb: nm0255223
- Library of Congress Names: n50010027
- LibraryThing: ellisonralph
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): RAVV027905
- VIAF: 2481446
- Wikidata: Q299965
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q299965
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