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Ralph Ellison

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Apr 16, 1994
Zodiac
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Born in
Oklahoma City OK
About
American author who wrote the literary classic, Invisible Man, which addresses social identity issues facing African-Americans in the early-to-mid 20th century. The novel received the National Book Award for Fiction in 1953.
Family
He and his brother were the Oklahoma City-born children of Ida Millsap and Lewis Alfred Ellison. He was married to Rose Poindexter from 1938 to 1945.

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