Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Ellison was born the grandson of slaves in 1914 in Oklahoma City. He is the author of The Invisible Man (1952), one of the most important and influential postwar American novels. "I blundered into writing," admitted Ellison in a 1961 interview with novelist Richard Stern. From the time he was eight years old, when his mother bought him a used coronet, he wanted to be a musician. He cut grass in exchange for trumpet lessons and worked as an elevator operator for two years at eight dollars a week to save tuition money. When he was finally awarded a music scholarship to Tuskegee Institute, he was unable to afford train passage, so he hopped freight trains all the way from Oklahoma City to Alabama. (1) In 1936, Ellison traveled to New York, where he tried unsuccessfully to find work to ea
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