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'''Ralph Ellison''' (1914-1994)<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/17/obituaries/ralph-ellison-author-of-invisible-man-is-dead-at-80.html</ref> was an American author.  His works include ''Invisible Man'' (1952), which won a National Book Award.<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''.  Prentice Hall, New York:  1991.</ref>

'''Ralph Ellison''' (1914-1994)<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/17/obituaries/ralph-ellison-author-of-invisible-man-is-dead-at-80.html</ref> was an American author.  His works include ''Invisible Man'' (1952), which won a National Book Award.<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''.  Prentice Hall, New York:  1991.</ref>

==Life and Works==

==Life and Works==

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>https://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==