Ralph Ellison
Born
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, The United States
March 01, 1913
Died
April 16, 1994
Genre
Influences
Hemingway, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Louis Armstrong, Richard Wright,
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Invisible Man
249 editions
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published
1952
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Juneteenth
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40 editions
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published
1999
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Flying Home and Other Stories
13 editions
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published
1996
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Shadow and Act
5 editions
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published
1960
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Battle Royal
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The Collected Essays
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10 editions
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published
1995
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Living with Music: Jazz Writings
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4 editions
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published
2001
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King of the Bingo Game
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1944
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Going to the Territory
6 editions
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1986
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Three Days Before the Shooting...
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10 editions
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2010
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“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
Polls
January 2015 New School Classic Poll
1985, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, 348 pages
1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 581 pages
1933, Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 315 pages
1958, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 209 pages
1951, The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, 160 pages
1985, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, 400 pages
1958, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 320 pages
1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302 pages
1985, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages
1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages
1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pages
1928, Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh, 300 pages
1947, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, 107 pages
1958, The Bell by Iris Murdoch, 320 pages
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