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Ralph Ellison

A Biography

By: Arnold Rampersad

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Paperback | 8 January 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel "Invisible Man," which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. But Ellison's strange inability to finish a second novel, despite his dogged efforts and soaring prestige, made him a supremely enigmatic figure. Arnold Rampersad skillfully tells the story of a writer whose thunderous novel and astute, courageous essays on race, literature, and culture assure him of a permanent place in our literary heritage.
Starting with Ellison's hardscrabble childhood in Oklahoma and his ordeal as a student in Alabama, Rampersad documents his improbable, painstaking rise in New York to a commanding place on the literary scene. With scorching honesty but also fair and compassionate, Rampersad lays bare his subject's troubled psychology and its impact on his art and on the people about him.This book is both the definitive biography of Ellison and a stellar model of literary biography.

Industry Reviews

"Startling, illuminating. . . . [Rampersad] treats Ellison as a man, not as a deity."
--The New Yorker

"Astute . . . revelatory. . . . Consistently intriguing."
--The Washington Post Book World

"Illuminating and richly reported. . . . Rampersad is uniquely qualified to examine the Ellison case."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Rampersad is as meticulous as he is graceful."
--Newsday

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In the Territory	p. 3
Leaving the Territory	p. 37
In a Land Most Strange	p. 52
A Shock of Transition	p. 81
The Recognition of Necessity	p. 114
The Numbed and the Seething	p. 143
A Mighty Book, a Mighty Theme	p. 170
The Agon of Writing	p. 199
In the Home Stretch	p. 224
Finish Line	p. 247
Annus Mirabilis	p. 268
Second Act	p. 293
Adventure in Rome	p. 316
The Pleasures of Home	p. 347
Hanging Fire	p. 381
Tell It Like It Is, Baby	p. 412
A "Lone-Star" Negro	p. 442
Professor in the Humanities	p. 470
The Monkey on His Back	p. 493
The Uncanny Penetration of the Past	p. 520
Flying Home	p. 546
Books	p. 567
Notes	p. 569
Acknowledgments	p. 625
Index	p. 629
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