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Ralph Ellison
Author profile
born
March 01, 1914
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, The United States
died
April 16, 1994
gender
male
genre
influences
Hemingway, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Louis Armstrong, Richard Wright,...more
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Invisible Man
   3.79 avg rating — 43,954 ratings
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published
1952
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52 editions
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Juneteenth
by Ralph Ellison, Charles Johnson  3.47 avg rating — 425 ratings
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published
1999
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14 editions
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Flying Home and Other Stories
by Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan 3.88 avg rating — 187 ratings
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published
1996
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6 editions
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Shadow and Act
4.12 avg rating — 138 ratings
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published
1964
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The Collected Essays
by Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan , Saul Bellow 4.31 avg rating — 94 ratings
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published
1995
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3 editions
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Living With Music: Jazz Writings
by Ralph Ellison, Robert G. O'Meally 4.01 avg rating — 77 ratings
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published
2001
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2 editions
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Going to the Territory
4.21 avg rating — 33 ratings
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published
1986
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4 editions
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Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
by Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, John F. Callahan 3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings
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published
2000
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3 editions
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Battle Royal
3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Three Days Before the Shooting...
by Ralph Ellison, Adam Bradley , John Callahan 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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published
2010
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3 editions
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“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
“I am an invisible man.
No I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe:
Nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms.
I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids
- and I might even be said to possess a mind.
I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me.”
― Ralph Ellison
― Ralph Ellison
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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