TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rampersad,Arnold
TI  - Ralph Ellison: a biography 
SN  - 0375408274 (alk. paper)
AV  - PS3555.L625 Z8725 2007
U1  - 818/.5409B 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Ellison, Ralph.
KW  - Novelists, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - African American novelists
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [569]-624) and index
N2  - 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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