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Ralph Ellison

1913 – 1994

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Tuskegee, Alabama; New York, United States

Oklahoma City-born novelist and essayist whose Invisible Man (1952) won the 1953 National Book Award; a second novel he never finished appeared after his death as Juneteenth.

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Carnegie Library at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1906; Ralph Ellison studied music at Tuskegee 1933-36
Credit: Detroit Publishing Co., Library of Congress. License: Public domain (no known restrictions on publication).

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  1. Library of Congress, Read.gov, "Ralph Ellison" (Primary source)
  2. Johns Hopkins University Department of History, on Lawrence Jackson, Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius (University of Georgia Press, 2002) (Scholarly)
  3. Oklahoma Hall of Fame, "Ralph Waldo Ellison" (2002 inductee) (Reference)
  4. NPR Code Switch, "Ralph Ellison: No Longer The Invisible Man, 100 Years After His Birth" (2014) (Reference)

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