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Ralph Ellison : a biography / Arnold Rampersad.

by Rampersad, Arnold.

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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

Ellison, Ralph.

Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

African American novelists -- Biography.

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006026464.html

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0735/2006026464-s.html

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0735/2006026464-b.html

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0735/2006026464-d.html

0375408274 (alk. paper)

9780375408274 (alk. paper)

657 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

In the territory -- Leaving the territory -- In a land most strange -- A shock of transition -- The recognition of necessity -- The numbed and the seething -- A mighty book, a mighty theme -- The agony of writing -- In the home stretch -- Finish line -- Annus mirabilis -- Second act -- Adventure in Rome -- The pleasures of home -- Hanging fire -- Tell it like it is, baby -- A "lone-star" Negro -- Professor in the humanities -- The monkey on his back -- The uncanny penetration of the past -- Flying home.

The definitive biography of an important American cultural intellectual of the twentieth century--Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece Invisible Man. In 1953, Ellison's explosive story of a young black man's search for truth and identity catapulted him to national prominence. Ellison earned many honors, but his failure to publish a second novel, despite years of striving, haunted him for the rest of his life. Rampersad, the first scholar given complete access to Ellison's papers, provides a complex portrait of an unusual artist and human being. This biography describes a man of magnetic personality who counted Saul Bellow, Langston Hughes, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, Richard Wilbur, Albert Murray, and John Cheever among his closest friends; a man whose life and art were shaped mainly by his unyielding desire to produce magnificent art and by his resilient faith in the moral and cultural strength of America.--From publisher description.

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