81. English 28 - Ralph Waldo Ellison A short biography and a timeline. http://www.unc.edu/courses/engl028/ellison.html

RALPH WALDO ELLISON "No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids-and I might even be said to posses a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as thought I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination- indeed, everything and anything except me." -Ralph Ellison The elderly Ellison Ellison's father, who named his son after Ralph Waldo Emerson, was a tradesmen who died when Ellison was three. His mother enlisted blacks into the Socialist Party and also was a domestic worker. In the early 1930's, Ellison won a scholarship to Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, where he studied music until 1936. In 1936 he moved to New York City, met the novelist Richard Wright, and became associated with the Federal Writers' Project, publishing short stories and articles in such magazines as New Challenge and New Masses. These early details of his life are described in Shadow Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical essays. Throughout his career, Ellison lectured widely throughout the United States and taught at a number of universities, including New York University, where he began teaching in 1970. He has also lectured internationally in Austria and Germany, and has lived and worked in Rome. Ellison married Fanny McConnell in 1946 and received a Doctor of Philosophy in Humane Letters from Tuskegee in 1963. He has supposedly been influenced by such a variety of things as the Gettysburg Address, Ecclesiastes, and the works of Benjamin Franklin. Many commentators note that in his novel Invisible Man, he shares the thematic and stylistic influences of such writers as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and T.S. Eliot.

82. Ellison, Ralph: AuthorSheets: Humanities Department: Carnegie Library Of Pittsbu Literary Criticism of ralph ellison, ralph ellison, Literary Criticism, ralphellison Bibliography. Humanities AuthorSheets Author List ellison, ralph. http://www.clpgh.org/locations/humanities/authorsheets/ellison.html

Select Library Area: Article Search Ask a Librarian Branches Careers at CLP Computer Classes Directions Employment Genealogy/History Homework Help Hours Kids' Site Library Subject Guide Renew a Book Request a Book Search Subject Departments Support the Library Teens' Site Web Resource Guide Humanities About Us Popular Collection Humanities Links ... Contact Us Subject Search: Web Site Catalog Internet Search Humanities AuthorSheets Author List Ellison, Ralph Abrams, Robert. "The Ambiguities of Dreaming in Ellison's Invisible Man In American Literature , Volume 49, No. 4, 1978. pp. 592-603. Criticism Invisible Man In Allen, Walter. The Modern Novel . New York, Dutton, 1964. pp. 317-321. Criticism Invisible Man Anderson, Jervis. "Profiles: Going to the Territory." In New Yorker , Volume 52, Nove 22, 1976. pp. 55-108. Biography Baker, Houston. "To Move Without Moving: An Analysis of Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison's Trueblood Episode." In PMLA , Vol. 98, Oct. 1983, ppl 828-845. Criticism Invisible Man In Balakian, Nona, and Simmons, Charles, eds. The Creative Present: Notes on Contemporary American Fiction . Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963. pp. 20-21.

83. Friends Of The Library -- Ralph Ellison A Division of Metropolitan Library Friends, the group promotes the usage of the ralph ellison Library. http://connections.connectok.com/friends/ellison.html

Special Friends of Ralph Ellison Library A Division of Metropolitan Library Friends Purpose ... to maintain an association of persons interested in books and libraries, to focus public attention on library services, facilities and needs of the Ralph Ellison Library, to stimulate gifts of materials including books, magazines, desirable collections, endowments, grants, bequests and other support, to promote usage of the Ralph Ellison Library, and to meet the special needs of the Northeast Oklahoma City community. Membership ... by contribution, renewable annually on April 1. each active membership is entitled to one vote. Individual ... $2 Family ... $5 Organizational ... $15 Businesses, corporations, churches ... $40 Meetings Monthly Board (All invited) ... Second Thursday monthly Annual Membership ... April Accomplishments Organization Building ... Permission granted to organize under Friend of Metropolitan Library System ... 10/23/95 First meeting of SFREL ... 11/1/95 SFREL By-Laws adopted ... 3/14/96 100th Member joined SFREL ... 11/7/96

84. Ellison, Ralph ellison, ralph 1914, American author, b. Oklahoma City, Okla. As ellison,ralph. 1914-, American author, b. Oklahoma City, Okla. As http://www.slider.com/enc/17000/Ellison_Ralph.htm

Home Encyclopeadia E Ele - Ell ... Rope Ladders Slider Search: The Web Encyclopaedia Shopping Index Help Encyclopaedia Ellison, Ralph 1914-, American author, b. Oklahoma City, Okla. As a young jazz musician he moved to New York City and became friends with Richard Wright. He began his writing career with reviews and stories published in New Masses magazine. His considerable literary reputation rests primarily on one novel, The Invisible Man (1952). A classic of American literature, it draws upon the author's experiences, detailing the harrowing progress of a nameless young black man trying to find a place for himself in a hostile society. Ellison has also published two collections of essays, Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986). Sections of a second novel have so far been published only in magazines. See studies by John Hersey, ed. (1974), R. G. O'Meally (1980), and Alan Nadel (1988). Add URL Advertise Contact Us

85. Ralph Ellison There's a library named after ralph ellison with special happenings in memory of the author. http://www.mls.lib.ok.us/Library/RE.htm

MLS Home Ralph Ellison Library 2000 NE 23rd Oklahoma City, OK 73111 Ph. (405) 424-1437 Monday - Thursday 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. Friday 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. View Location on Map This library is named for the late Ralph Ellison , author of the highly acclaimed Invisible Man, who was born in Oklahoma City in 1914 and grew up here. As much as this library is an information resource, it is a center of community activities for northeast Oklahoma City. Recently, area residents formed the Friends of the Ralph Ellison Library. The group sponsors fund-raising events and coordinates projects benefiting the library. For information about joining, call the library. Book drop : Right of entrance Collection 42,000 fiction and nonfiction items for adults and children including hardback and paperback books, magazines, newspapers, audio and videocassettes Reference materials for in-library use Computer access to the library system's collection of 1,000,000 items

86. Academic Directories ellison, ralph, Gerald Early on ralph ellison In this article from the journal Dissent,critic and writer Gerald Early discusses the work of ralph ellison. http://www.allianceforlifelonglearning.org/er/tree.jsp?c=5645

87. Online NewsHour: Ralph Ellison's Legacy -- July 21, 1999 An article describing the author and his life together with some pictures. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june99/ellison_6-21.html

RALPH ELLISON'S LEGACY June 21, 1999 Ralph Ellison, author of the Invisible Man , died before publishing the novel Juneteenth . His widow asked Ellison's editor, John Callahan, to complete the book. Callahan and Charles Johnson, professor of Humanities at the University of Washington, discuss Ellison’s legacy with Elizabeth Farnsworth. 1999 Pulitzer Prizes for the Arts March 10,1999: Tom Stoppard' s search for love and meaning in the theater. February 10,1999: Arthur Miller reflects on the 50th anniversary of Death of a Salesman December 11,1998: Elizabeth Farnsworth engages writer Tom Wolfe November 20,1998: Elizabeth Farnsworth speaks with award-winning writer Alice McDermott November 18, 1998: An interview with novelist John Barth October 9,1998: Portuguese writer José Saramago wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. November 11, 1997: The enduring influence of " A Streetcar Named Desire " on American theater.

88. Ralph Ellison, The Invinsible Man, Perhaps? - Suite101.com An Article by Tracy Roberts. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/4971/29389

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89. American Masters . Ralph Ellison | PBS A description of the life of ralph ellison and a timeline. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/ellison_r.html

Ralph Ellison by Anne Seidlitz I If Wright's protest literature was a natural outcome of a brutal childhood spent in the deep South, Ellison's more affirming approach came out of a very different background in Oklahoma. A "frontier" state with no legacy of slavery, Oklahoma in the 1910s created the possibility of exploring a fluidity between the races not possible even in the North. Although a contemporary recalled that the Ellisons were "among the poorest" in Oklahoma City, Ralph still had the mobility to go to a good school, and the motivation to find mentors, both black and white, from among the most accomplished people in the city. Ellison would later say that as a child he observed that there were two kinds of people, those "who wore their everyday clothes on Sunday, and those who wore their Sunday clothes every day. I wanted to wear Sunday clothes every day." Ellison's life-long receptivity to the variegated culture that surrounded him, beginning in Oklahoma City, served him well in creating a new take on literary modernism in INVISIBLE MAN. The novel references African-American folktales, songs, the blues, jazz, and black traditions like playing the dozens much as T.S. Eliot and James Joyce had referenced classical Western and Eastern civilization in THE WASTELAND and ULYSSES. An added difference for Ellison was that his modernist narrative was also a vehicle for inscribing his own and the black identity as well as a roadmap for anyone experiencing themselves as "invisible," unseen. "Time" magazine essayist Roger Rosenblatt would say: "Ralph Ellison taught me what it is to be an American."

90. Ralph Ellison @ Catharton Authors ralph ellison. 1st March 1914 16th April 1994. Bored? Meet people at Café Catharton Websites ralph ellison Webliography. Bohemian Ink ralph ellison. http://www.catharton.com/authors/359.htm

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91. Biography Of Ralph Ellison A short biography and a list of links. http://english3.fsu.edu/~dmelz/Ellison_bio.html

A Biography of Ralph Ellison Invisible Man- 1952 The Living Novel- 1957 Shadow and Act- 1964 The Writers Experience- 1964 Education of the Deprived and Segregated- 1965 Who Speaks for the Negro?- 1965 The City in Crisis- 1968 To Heal and to Built- 1968 American Law: The Third Century, The Law Bicentennial Volume- 1976 Going to the Territory- 1986 The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison- 1995 Flying Home and Other Stories- 1997 Juneteenth- 1999 Home

92. Literature & Fiction / Authors, A-Z / ( E ) / Ellison, Ralph 1. Juneteenth by ralph ellison, John F. Callahan (Editor). 2. The CollectedEssays of ralph ellison (Modern Library) by ralph ellison, et al. http://hallwriters.com/E/3.shtml

Home Authors, A-Z ( E ) Ellison, Ralph Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan (Editor) Random House Hardcover - 368 pages (June 1999) The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison (Modern Library) by Ralph Ellison, et al Modern Library Hardcover (November 1995) Invisible Man [UNABRIDGED] by Ralph Ellison, Joe Morton (Reader) Random House (Audio) Audio Cassette unabridged edition (June 1999) Flying Home : And Other Stories by Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan (Editor) Vintage Books Paperback - 224 pages (January 1998) Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (Bloom's Notes) by Harold Bloom(Editor), Ralph Ellison Junteenth [ABRIDGED] by Ralph Ellison, Blair Underwood (Reader) Random House (Audio) Audio Cassette Abridged edition (June 1999) Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (Barron's Book Notes) by Ralph Ellison, et al Barrons Educational Series Paperback - 135 pages (May 1985) Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (Bloom's Notes) by Harold Bloom(Editor), Ralph Ellison Chelsea House Publishing Paperback - 72 pages (July 1999) See picture Conversations With Ralph Ellison (Literary Conversations Series (Paper)) by Ralph Ellison, et al

93. Decoding Ralph Ellison (Gerald Early) An Article titled Decoding ralph ellison by Gerald Early. http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/HONR/HONR269J/.WWW/archive/early.html

DISSENT / SUMMER 1997 / VOLUME 44, NUMBER 3 Decoding Ralph Ellison Gerald Early BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY Conversations With Ralph Ellison edited by Maryemma Graham and Amrijit Singh University Press of Mississippi, 1995. 409 pages. $15.95. Flying Home and Other Stories by Ralph Ellison Edited and with an introduction by John F. Callahan Random House, 1996. 176 pages. $23. Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life. by Jerry Gafio Watts The University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 156 pages. $12.95. T he curious, but essential, dimension of the Ralph Ellison literary myth is that he published only one novel, and that his entire authority as a writer and intellectual rests on this one work. The success of the book made Ellison not only the exemplary black creative writer but also an intellectual of some considerable standing. On one level, Ellison's career stopped with the 1952 publication of Invisible Man , because the rest of his life was a long effort to produce a second novel that never appeared and that, probably, was never even finished, though he scribbled endlessly. On another level, the novel's publication was only the start of his career, if one considers the career to be the position that Ellison was able to occupy as a result of the acclaim Invisible Man garnered. Was this career an engagement on the highest level of principle that a black artist heroically demanded of himself, his audience, and his society, or was it a kind of brilliant evasion, a failure of nerve that only a black artist could have experienced because of what he implausibly demanded of himself, a demand that in onerousness or pretension neither his audience nor society could lessen?

94. Books / Literature & Fiction / American / African American / Ellison, Ralph 1. Invisible Man ralph ellison / Paperback / Published 1995 Read more about thistitle 7. Shadow and Act ralph ellison / Paperback / Published 1995. http://www.bookmag.com/books/literature---fiction/102.html

Books American African American / Ellison, Ralph Browse our most popular books titlesfrom 1 to 14. Invisible Man Ralph Ellison / Paperback / Published 1995 Read more about this title... Invisible Man Ralph Ellison / Hardcover / Published 1992 Read more about this title... Invisible Man (Commemorative Edition) Ralph Ellison / Hardcover / Published 1994 Read more about this title... Flying Home : And Other Stories Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1996 Read more about this title... The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison (Modern Library) Ralph Ellison, et al / Hardcover / Published 1995 Read more about this title... Flying Home : And Other Stories Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan / Paperback / Published 1998 Read more about this title... Shadow and Act Ralph Ellison / Paperback / Published 1995 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (Barron's Book Notes) Ralph Ellison, Anthony S. Abbott / Paperback / Published 1985 Read more about this title... Going to the Territory (Vintage International) Ralph Ellison / Paperback / Published 1995 Conversations With Ralph Ellison (Literary Conversations Series (Paper)) Ralph Ellison, et al / Paperback / Published 1995

95. Albert Murray Discusses Ralph Ellison The author and cultural historian discusses Invisible Man author ralph ellison on the Jerry Jazz Musician web site. http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=murray.html

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98. Ralph Waldo Ellison A short biography and a description of the main works. http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/naal5/explore/ellison.htm

Ralph Waldo Ellison Biography Ralph Ellison grew up in Oklahoma City and attended college at the Tuskegee Institute, where he was a music major who admired both the classics of the European tradition and Kansas City jazz. After graduation he moved to New York City, where he met Richard Wright and was encouraged to pursue his writing career. Invisible Man (1952), the result of seven years of writing, won the National Book Award and brought Ellison into the national spotlight. Critics disagreed about whether the book made a statement about African Americans, but Ellison felt both sides had missed the point. He had never aimed to be a spokesperson and asked to be judged simply as a writer. After the outstanding success of Invisible Man , Ellison began teaching university courses, and from 1970 until retirement he was the Albert Schweitzer Professor of the Humanities at New York University. His prose essays are collected in Shadow and Act Explorations Invisible Man is in some ways an autobiographical novel, based on Ellison's own experiences at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and in New York in the 1930s and 1940s, when the Communist Party was a major presence in the civil rights movement. However, as a young writer proficient in literary modernism and Anglo-American cultural history, Ellison wrote a book which echoed and conversed with a host of forebears. Joyce is here, and Hawthorne and Emerson , and Clemens , and the European surrealists and dadaists the list is very long.

99. Daily Celebrations ~ Ralph Ellison, I'll Be Free ~ March 1 ~ Ideas To Motivate, Short text about ralph ellison in celebration of March, 1st 2000. http://www.dailycelebrations.com/030100.htm

March 1 ~  I'll Be Free Ellison's Jazz Writings When I discover who I a m I'll be free ~ Ralph Ellison Writer Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914 -1994) saw America as a place of endless possibilities and his words searched for the meaning of freedom and identity. His heart 's desire was to be a musician, so he moved from Oklahoma City to New York in 1936. "I thought of it as the freest of American cities and considered Harlem as the site and symbol of Afro-American progress," he explained. In NY, he met Richard Wright, a black storyteller who urged Ellison to write and "give voice to the voiceless black experience." Ellison listened and began to integrate his passion for jazz with the flow of his word construction. What emerged was Invisible Man , a seven-year project that became a college text standard upon its 1952 release. Named by Book Week as "the most distinguished single work" published in America between 1945 and 1965, the novel is written in first person, singular. Its nameless narrator, a black man growing up in the South and Harlem in the 1930s, struggles for

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