| LC control no. | n 50010027 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3555.L625 |
| Personal name heading | Ellison, Ralph |
| Variant(s) | אליסון, ראלף |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1914-03-01 |
| Death date | 1994-04-16 |
| Place of birth | Oklahoma City, (Okla.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | Tuskegee Institute American Academy of Arts and Letters University of Chicago Bard College University of Chicago Yale University |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Essayists College teachers Lecturers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | His Invisible man, 1952. Covo, J. The blinking eye, 1974: t.p. (Ralph Waldo Ellison, American writer) Encycl. American, 1990: v. 10, p. 255 (Ellison, Ralph Waldo, 1914- ; b. Oklahoma City, Okla. on Mar. 1, 1914) Collier's encyclopedia: v. 9, p. 104 (Ellison, Ralph, 1914- ; American novelist and essayist) The collected essays of Ralph Ellison, 1995: CIP data sheet (d. 1994) Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Aug. 29, 2006 (Ralph (Waldo) Ellison; b. Mar. 1, 1914, Oklahoma City, Okla.; d. Apr. 16, 1994, New York, N.Y.; writer, 1937-94) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Ralph Waldo Ellison; essayist, fiction writer; born 1 March 1914 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States; received a scholarship from the state of Oklahoma to study music and musical composition at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama; in 1938 began working for the Federal Writers' Project; in 1953 became the first black writer to be awarded the National Book Award; lectured in Italy as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; although he never completed his senior year at Tuskegee Institute, he taught at Bard College between (1958-1961); visiting professor at the University of Chicago (1961) and at Rutgers and Yale (between 1962 and 1964); died 16 April 1994 in New York, New York, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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