Ralph Ellison : a biography
Rampersad, Arnold
Ralph Ellison : a biography / Arnold Rampersad - 1st ed - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2007 - 657 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [569]-624) and index.
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.
9780375408274
2006026464
Ellison, Ralph
Novelist, American---20th century - Biography
African American novelists----Biography
92 ELL
Ralph Ellison : a biography / Arnold Rampersad - 1st ed - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2007 - 657 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [569]-624) and index.
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.
9780375408274
2006026464
Ellison, Ralph
Novelist, American---20th century - Biography
African American novelists----Biography
92 ELL
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