Ralph Ellison
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Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913-1994) was an American novelist, literary scholar, and scholar best known for his book Invisible Man, which received the National Book Award in 1953.
Shadow and Act (1964), a series of political, socioeconomic, and critical essays by the author, and Going to the Territory (1986).
The best of these essays in addition to the novel, according to The New York Times, placed him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus." After being assembled from voluminous notes he left on his death, a posthumous book, Juneteenth, was published.
Early life
Ralph Waldo Ellison, nicknamed after Ralph Waldo Emerson, was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on March 1, 1913, to Lewis Alfred Ellison and Ida Millsap.
The 407 East First Street in Oklahoma City erupted with excitement as Ida Ellison, nicknamed "Brownie" by close friends, approached the end in early 1913. She and her husband Lewis lived in an apartment shared by J. D. Randolph and his family.
He was the second of three sons; the firstborn Alfred died in infancy; younger brother Herbert Maurice (or Millsap) was born in 1916. Lewis Alfred Ellison, a small-business owner and a building foreman, died in 1916 after an operation to repair internal wounds after shards from a 100-lb ice block penetrated his abdomen when being loaded into a hopper. The elder Ellisons loved literature and spent time with his children. Ralph later discovered that his father had aspired to be a poet as an adult.
Ellison's mother and her children moved to Gary, Indiana, where she had a brother. "My brother and I will have a great chance of seeing manhood if we grew up in the north," Ellison said. When she didn't find a job and her brother lost his, the family moved to Oklahoma, where Ellison served as a busboy, a shoehine boy, hotel waiter, and a dentist's assistant. He received free lessons for playing trumpet and alto saxophone, and he'll continue to become the school bandmaster from the father of a neighborhood friend.
Ida remarried three times after Lewis died. However, the family's life was precarious, and Ralph performed various jobs during his youth and teens to assist with family care. While attending Douglass High School, he took time to participate in the school's football team. In 1931, he graduated from high school. He performed for a year and discovered the funds to make a down payment on a trumpet, using it to perform with local musicians and take further music lessons. At Douglass, he was influenced by principal Inman E. Page and his daughter, as well as music teacher Zelia N. Breaux.