Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Oklahoma City
- Educated at
- Tuskegee UniversityFrederick A. Douglass High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres🏆 Presidential Medal of Freedom🏆 National Book Award🏆 National Medal of Arts🏆 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."
"The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing."
"Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me."
"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."
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Timeline
1914
Born
Birth1994
Died
Death
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