Ellison, Ralph

A twentieth-century African-American author and educator best known for his first novel , Invisible Man. Ellison also wrote Shadow and Act , a collection of essays on race and society.

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Ralph Ellison was useful on this: “Can a people,” he asked, “live and develop for over three hundred years simply by reacting?”

Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison After completing The Invisible Man, Ellison never finished another novel.

Ralph Ellison was given the National Book Award in 1953 for his first and last finished novel, Invisible Man.

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