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Ralph Waldo Ellison

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Birthplace: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States
Death: April 16, 1994 (81)
New York, New York, United States (pancreatic cancer)
Place of Burial: New York, New York County, New York, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Pvt. Lewis Alfred Ellison and Ida "Brownie" Millsap
Husband of Fanny Ellison
Ex-husband of Rose Poindexter
Brother of Herbert Maurice Ellison and Alfred Ellison

Occupation: Novelist, critic, scholar
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About Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. An alumnus of the Tuskegee Institute, he also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). For The New York Times, the best of these essays in addition to the novel put him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus." A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left after his death.

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Ralph Ellison's Timeline

1913
March 1, 1913
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States
1994
April 16, 1994
Age 81
New York, New York, United States
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Tuskegee Institute
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Trinity Church Cemetery, Washington Heights, New York, New York County, New York, United States