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Ellison was born black in Oklahoma City on March 1, 1914.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/ralph-ellison-9286702</ref>  As a child, he lost his father and lived in poverty, but was able to read magazines from houses that his mother cleaned and visited a local public library.<ref>http://www.famousauthors.org/ralph-ellison</ref>  He attended Tuskegee University, studying music, but left for New York City, where black novelist [[Richard Wright]] encouraged him to write, and he wrote ''The Invisible Man''.<ref>"Ellison, Ralph."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>  Contradictory to Wright's characters, Ellison's characters in ''The Invisible Man'' were intelligent and self-aware.<ref>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/ralph-ellison-an-american-journey/587/</ref>  He died of pancreatic cancer on April 16, 1994.<ref>http://www.biblio.com/ralph-ellison/author/195</ref>

Ellison was born black in Oklahoma City on March 1, 1914.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/ralph-ellison-9286702</ref>  As a child, he lost his father and lived in poverty, but was able to read magazines from houses that his mother cleaned and visited a local public library.<ref>http://www.famousauthors.org/ralph-ellison</ref>  He attended Tuskegee University, studying music, but left for New York City, where black novelist [[Richard Wright]] encouraged him to write, and he wrote ''The Invisible Man''.<ref>"Ellison, Ralph."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>  Contradictory to Wright's characters, Ellison's characters in ''The Invisible Man'' were intelligent and self-aware.<ref>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/ralph-ellison-an-american-journey/587/</ref>  He died of pancreatic cancer on April 16, 1994.<ref>http://www.biblio.com/ralph-ellison/author/195</ref>

==See Also==

==See also==

*[[Toni Morrison]]

*[[Toni Morrison]]

*[[Langston Hughes]]

*[[Langston Hughes]]