Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914 – 1994) Jenny Malchow AP English Period 3 October ellison/

Childhood. Birth: March 1, 1914 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ▫Parents – Lewis Alfred and Ida Millsap Ellison ▫Younger brother – Herbert 1917 – Father Passes Away Attended Frederick Douglass School ▫Received musical training – Graduates from Douglass High, an all black high school ▫1 st chair trumpet.

Life – Begins studying at Tuskegee in Alabama 1936 – Moves to N.Y to study sculptures ▫Meets Langston Hughes who introduces him to Wright 1938 – Marries Rose Poindexter, Actress Richard Wright encourages Ellison to write. ▫Works published in New Masses ▫Became editor of Negro Quarterly 1943 – 45 : Merchant Marine Cook 1946 – Marries Fanny McConnell

Continued – Invisible Man 1955 – Moves to Rome To write a second novel Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities April 16, 1994 – dies of Pancreatic Cancer old.wordpress.com/2011 /03/05/ralph-ellison- invisible-man-prologue- excerpt/

Invisible Man 1944 – Rosenwald Foundation gives Ellison a grant to begin writing IM Begins his writing on Sick Leave form Merchant Marines 7 years to finish the novel 1952 Published by Random House 1953 National Book Award 1985 National Medal of Arts llison/ellison_harlemriots.html

Other Works High Fidelity Shadow and Act 1986 – Going to the Territory Flying Home – published posthumously in 1996 Juneteenth - published posthumously in 1999

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