Ralph Ellison, a biography, Arnold Rampersad
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Ralph Ellison, a biography, Arnold Rampersad
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [569]-624) and index
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individual biography
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Ralph Ellison
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bibliography
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70921481
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Arnold Rampersad
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a biography
Summary
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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