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Ralph Ellison

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Ralph Ellison (1914-94) was born in Oklahoma and trained as a musician at Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936, at which time a visit to New York and a meeting with Richard Wright led to his first attempts at fiction. Invisible Man won the National Book Award. Appointed to the Academy of American Arts and Letters in 1964, Ellison taught at several institutions, including Bard College, the University of Chicago, and New York University, where he was Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities.
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Invisible Man

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Published in 1952, Invisible Man stands as a searing portrait of Black American life in the mid 20th-century United States. Winner of the National Book Award and named by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Best Novels of All Time, Invisible Man transcends a story of one individual’s life to offer a profound exploration of the human condition.

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