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Ralph Ellison
American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 1 March 1914
- Died
- 16 April 1994
- Place of birth
- Oklahoma City
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Ralph
- Family name
- Ellison
- Occupation
- writer, essayist, novelist, autobiographer, literary critic, music critic, journalist, prose writer, critic, literary scholar
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- National Medal of Arts, Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Book Award, Langston Hughes Medal, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- archives at
- Louis Round Wilson Library
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- educated at
- Tuskegee University, Frederick A. Douglass High School
- employer
- New York University
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- influenced by
- Ernest Hemingway
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellowship of Southern Writers
- name in native language
- Ralph Ellison
- notable work
- Invisible Man, Juneteenth, Three Days Before the Shooting..., Shadow and Act
- place of burial
- Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum
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