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Ralph Ellison : a biography
- Title
- Ralph Ellison : a biography / Arnold Rampersad.
- Author
- Rampersad, Arnold
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
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- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [569]-624) and index.
- Call Number
- PS3555.L625
- ISBN
- 0375408274 (alk. paper)
- 9780375408274 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006026464
- OCLC
- 70921481
- Author
- Rampersad, Arnold.
- Title
- Ralph Ellison : a biography / Arnold Rampersad.
- Imprint
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Description
- 657 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [569]-624) and index.
- 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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- *R-RMRR PS3555.L625 Z8725 2007Sc E 07-486