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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History, Classic Literature, Confederacy, Fiction, Satanism, Union, United States Civil War, hanging, short story, American Civil War, American drama, American literature, Confederate States of America, Drama, Juvenile audience, Literature, Puritans, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, catechism, civil war, short stories, African Americans, American Horror tales, American fictionPlaces
Alabama, Massachusetts, Owl Creek Bridge, United States, England, New England, Salem Village, Andover, Barbados, Chapelizod, China, Dublin, Eastern Europe, Eton College, Florida, Fountain of Youth, Jefferson, Mallard residence, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Milford meeting house, Missouri, Oxford, Rome, Saint Louis, Saint Louis (Mo.)People
Devil, Peyton Farquhar, Faith Brown, Goodman Brown, Goody Cloyse, Abigail Williams, Amanda Wingfield, Ann Putnam, Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Brently Mallard, Bridget Bishop, Caddy, Colonel Killigrew, Dilsey, Dr. Heidegger, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Proctor, Emily Sinico, Ethelred, Ezekiel Cheever, Fortunato, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Giles CoreyTime
1861-1865, 19th century, American Civil War, 1600s, 1861-65, Civil War, 1692, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, carnivalID Numbers
- OLID: OL32983A
- ISNI: 0000000121178826
- VIAF: 2481446
- Wikidata: Q299965
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q299965
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