Ralph Ellison (1913–1994)
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Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1914 - April 16, 1994) has the distinction of being one of the few writers who has established a firm literary reputation on the strength of a single work of long fiction. Writer and teacher, Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City, studied at Tuskegee Institute, and has toon meer lectured at New York, Columbia, and Fisk universities and at Bard College. He received the Prix de Rome from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1955, and in 1964 he was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He has contributed short stories and essays to various publications. Invisible Man (1952), his first novel, won the National Book Award for 1953 and is considered an impressive work. It is a vision of the underground man who is also the invisible African American, and its possessor has employed this subterranean view and viewer to so extraordinary an advantage that the impression of the novel is that of a pioneer work. A book of essays, Shadow and Act, which discusses the African American in America and Ellison's Oklahoma boyhood, among other topics, appeared in 1964. Ralph Ellison died on April 16, 1994 of pancreatic cancer and was interred in a crypt at Trinity Church Cemetery in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray (2000) 68 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
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- Gangbare naam
- Ellison, Ralph
- Officiële naam
- Ellison, Ralph Waldo
- Geboortedatum
- 1913-03-01
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1994-04-16
- Graflocatie
- Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York, USA
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- New York, New York, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- pancreatic cancer
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
Plainfield, Massachusetts, USA - Opleiding
- Tuskegee Institute
- Beroepen
- novelist
short-story writer
essayist
literary critic
photographer
sculptor (toon alle 7)
professor - Organisaties
- United States Merchant Marine
Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
Century Association
New York University - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1969)
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres (1970)
Langston Hughes Medallion (1984)
National Medal of Arts (1985)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1964)
National Book Award (1953) (toon alle 7)
Ansfield-Wolf Book Award (1992) - Korte biografie
- Born in Deep Deuce neighborhood of Oklahoma City.
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