![]() Ellison was best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He was born Ralph Waldo Ellison in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, named by his father after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison died of Pancreatic Cancer on April 16, 1994. For The New York Times, the best of these essays in addition to the novel put him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus." A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left after his death. He also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). ![]() ![]()
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