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Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1913 β April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.Ellison wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). The New York Times dubbed him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus".A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes Ellison left upon his death.
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Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
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Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, Celebrated Writer (2005)
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Deathday1994-04-16 (undefined years old)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsNational Book Award for Fiction, National Medal of Arts, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Langston Hughes Medal, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, National Book Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom
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