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| Profile: In Memory of a great American writer Ralph Waldo Ellison 1914-1994 American writer, teacher and lecturer, Ralph Waldo Ellison was born on March 1, 1914 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the son of Lewis Alfred, a construction worker and tradesman, and Ida Millsap. He married Fanny McConnell in July, 1946. He died of cancer on April 16, 1994 in New York, NY. An accomplished jazz trumpeter and a freelance photographer, Ellison became interested in writing after a chance meeting with the author Richard Wright who encouraged him to write essays, reviews and short stories for various periodicals. Soon after Ellison became an editor of the Negro Quarterly magazine, he started work on his first novel. In 1952, he gained international acclaim for his landmark novel INVISIBLE MAN and published two collections of essays thereafter, SHADOW AND ACT (1964) and GOING TO THE TERRITORY (1986). He lectured widely  and was Albert Schweitzer professor in the Humanites at New York University. The recipient of several prestigious awards and honors for his works, Ralph Ellison is an important African-American author with a unique voice.JUNETEENTH his last novel published symbolically on June 19, 2000 posthumously, marks the crowning of his career. Read our review of Juneteenth. Reviewed by Julie Failla Earhart. Awards and honors received by Ralph Ellison - Fellowship, National American Academy of Arts and Letters in Rome - 1955-57 Elected vice-president of the American PEN - 1964 Vice-president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters - 1967 Medal of Freedom - 1969 Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres - 1970 National Medal of Arts, for Invisible Man and for his teachings - 1985 |
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