6 Ralph Waldo Ellison (1913 – 1994)

Octaviano Gutierrez

Ralph Waldo Ellison
Ralph Waldo Ellison

Biography

Ralph 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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