| 1 | ->''"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike."'' |
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| 5 | ''' Ralph Waldo Ellison''' (March 1, 1914 – April 16, 1994) was an American author and essayist. Like most Black American writers during that time period, he was active in the Harlem literary scene, where he met his life-long best friend Creator/RichardWright. Both would go on to become absolute giants of American literature. |
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| 7 | Ellison is rather famously a OneBookAuthor. However, the one novel he did write -- ''Literature/InvisibleMan'' -- was an award-winning masterpiece so incredibly successful and influential that Ellison outstripped most of his far more prolific colleagues in terms of celebrity. To this day, it is considered required reading in American literature curricula. |
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| 9 | Ellison spent a great deal of his later career working on a second novel. However, he was never satisfied with it, and left behind a manuscript of over 2000 pages and a virtual tower of writing notes at the time of his death. About 4 years later, the unfinished manuscript was abridged and published as the novel ''Juneteenth'' by his literary executor John F. Callahan. Callahan's student, the literary critic Adam Bradley, later republished it as the 1100 page DoorStopper ''Three Days Before the Shooting...'', incorporating even more of Ellison's manuscripts and notes. |
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| 11 | Despite never finishing his second book, Ellison was a highly prolific essayist, critic, and lecturer. His most famous collection of essays is ''Shadow and Act'', named according to his famously enthusiastic review of Creator/WilliamFaulkner's ''Intruder in the Dust''. |
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