Ellison, Ralph, 1914-1994
Variant namesAfrican American author, born Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994) in Oklahoma to a family who migrated from South Carolina.
From the description of Ralph Ellison papers, 1990-1994. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 32828103
African American author and educator. Born 1914; died 1994.
From the description of Ralph Ellison papers, 1890-2005 (bulk 1930-1994). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983760
Ralph Ellison began writing seriously in 1939. Previously he had worked as a researcher on the New York Federal Writer's Project. Ellison has worked as an editor on the Negro Quarterly and has taught at various academic institutions. His writings include literary criticism, short stories, articles, and essays.
From the description of Brave words for a startling occasion. 1953. (Wichita State University). WorldCat record id: 22215681
Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man (1952), one of the most famous twentieth century American novels.
From the description of Documents : 1949-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80420414
Ralph Waldo Ellison, African-American novelist, was born in Oklahoma City in 1914 and moved to New York City in the 1940s where he started his writing career. In 1952 Ellison wrote his award winning novel, "The Invisible Man." Ellison's short stories and essays have been anthologized and Ellison's work remains an important documentation of the twentieth.
Century African-American experience.
From the description of Remembering Jimmy, Manuscript, 1953-1958. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 145566720
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| associatedWith | Agee, James, 1909-1955. | person |
| associatedWith | Aldridge, John W. | person |
| associatedWith | Allen, R. Frederick, | person |
| associatedWith | American Medical Center for Burma. | corporateBody |
| correspondedWith | Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988 | person |
| correspondedWith | Bellow, Saul | person |
| associatedWith | Bennington College. | corporateBody |
| correspondedWith | Brooks, Harry, 1895-1970 | person |
| correspondedWith | Calicutt, Harold | person |
| associatedWith | Carnegie Commission on Educational Television. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Carolina Symposium. | corporateBody |
| correspondedWith | Cheever, John | person |
| correspondedWith | Ciardi, John, 1916-1986 | person |
| associatedWith | Clark, Eleanor, 1913-1996. | person |
| correspondedWith | Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005 | person |
| associatedWith | Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. | corporateBody |
| correspondedWith | Davis, Henry B. O., 1911- | person |
| associatedWith | Dawson, William Levi, 1899-1990. | person |
| associatedWith | Ellison, Alfred. | person |
| associatedWith | Ellison family. | family |
| associatedWith | Ellison family. | family |
| associatedWith | Ellison, Fanny McConnell. | person |
| correspondedWith | Emanuel, James A. | person |
| correspondedWith | Engle, Paul, 1908-1991 | person |
| associatedWith | Erskine, Albert, 1911-1993. | person |
| associatedWith | Erskine, Albert Russell, 1911- | person |
| correspondedWith | Fabre, Michel | person |
| associatedWith | Federal Writers' Project. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Federal Writers' Project (N.Y.) | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Fischer, John Sylvester, 1910-1978. | person |
| correspondedWith | Harper, Michael S., 1938- | person |
| associatedWith | Hayes, Truman D. | person |
| correspondedWith | Hersey, John, 1914-1993 | person |
| associatedWith | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. | person |
| associatedWith | Humboldt, Charles, 1910-1964. | person |
| correspondedWith | Hyman, Phoebe | person |
| associatedWith | Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 1919-1970. | person |
| associatedWith | Jackson, Jesse, 1941- | person |
| correspondedWith | Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965 | person |
| correspondedWith | Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 | person |
| associatedWith | Kranz, Bert. | person |
| associatedWith | Lafky, Jim (James L.), 1921- | person |
| associatedWith | Lerner, Max, 1902-2001. | person |
| associatedWith | Lillard, Stewart, 1940- | person |
| associatedWith | Mandela, Nelson, 1918- | person |
| associatedWith | Maschal, Richard. | person |
| associatedWith | McConnell family. | family |
| correspondedWith | McPherson, James Alan, 1943- | person |
| associatedWith | Moore, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1940- | person |
| associatedWith | Morris, Wright, 1910-1998. | person |
| correspondedWith | Murray, Albert | person |
| associatedWith | Museum of the City of New York. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Neal, Larry, 1937-1981. | person |
| associatedWith | Negro People's Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) | corporateBody |
| correspondedWith | Newhall, Joseph F. | person |
| associatedWith | New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.) | corporateBody |
| correspondedWith | Olmanson, Myron Donald | person |
| associatedWith | Remnick, David. | person |
| associatedWith | Rubin, Louis Decimus, 1923- | person |
| employeeOf | Rutgers University | corporateBody |
| correspondedWith | Scott, Nathan A. | person |
| correspondedWith | Seagrave, Gordon Stifler, 1897-1965 | person |
| associatedWith | Sears, Donald A. | person |
| associatedWith | Society for Art, Religion and Contemporary Culture. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921- | person |
| alumnusOrAlumnaOf | Tuskegee Institute | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Wake Forest University. | corporateBody |
| correspondedWith | Ware, Lowry | person |
| correspondedWith | Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 | person |
| associatedWith | West, Dorothy, 1909- | person |
| associatedWith | Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999. | person |
| correspondedWith | Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 | person |
| associatedWith | Writers' Program (New York, N.Y.) | corporateBody |
| employeeOf | Yale University. | corporateBody |
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| South Carolina--Abbeville County |
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Person
Birth 1914-03-01
Death 1994-04-16
Americans
English
