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082	0	0	_a92 ELL
100	1		_aRampersad, Arnold
245	1	0	_aRalph Ellison _b: a biography _c/ Arnold Rampersad
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2007
300			_a657 p., [24] p. of plates _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [569]-624) and index.
520			_aThe 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.
600	1	0	_aEllison, Ralph
650		0	_aNovelist, American _x-20th century - Biography
650			_aAfrican American novelists _v--Biography
942			_cMO
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