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Ralph Ellison

Born

in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, The United States

March 01, 1913

Died

April 16, 1994

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Politics, Nonfiction

Influences

Hemingway, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Louis Armstrong, Richard Wright, ...more

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Ralph Ellison was a scholar and writer. He was born Ralph Waldo Ellison in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, named by his father after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison was best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). For The New York Times , the best of these essays in addition to the novel put him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus." A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left after his death.

Ellison died of Pancreatic Cancer on April 16, 1994. He was eighty-one years old. ...more

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	Invisible Man 3.93 avg rating — 206,829 ratings — published 1952 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison, Charles R. Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Preface by) 3.60 avg rating — 2,343 ratings — published 1999 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Ball 3.78 avg rating — 923 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flying Home and Other Stories 3.91 avg rating — 884 ratings — published 1996 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow and Act 4.10 avg rating — 644 ratings — published 1960 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Battle Royal 3.85 avg rating — 465 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Essays by Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow (Preface), John F. Callahan (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 314 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living with Music: Jazz Writings by Ralph Ellison, Robert O'Meally (Editor) 4.10 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King of the Bingo Game 3.56 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 1944	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Going to the Territory 4.22 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen pub 1817, 251 pp.

85 votes, 23.5%

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison pub 1952, 581 pp

60 votes, 16.6%

The Color Purple by Alice Walker pub 1982, 295 pp

58 votes, 16.1%

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath pub 1963, 294 p

57 votes, 15.8%

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells pub 1895, 118 pp

37 votes, 10.2%

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood pub. 1996, 468 pgs,

36 votes, 10.0%

Candide by Voltaire pub 1759, 129 pp

28 votes, 7.8%

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