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en-wikipedia-org-7642		Ralph Ellison - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4531	480	69	Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913[a] – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.[2] He also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). Toward the end of the war, he enlisted in the United States Merchant Marine.[11]:67 In 1946, he married Fanny McConnell, an accomplished person in her own right: a scholarship graduate of the University of Iowa who was a founder of the Negro People's Theater in Chicago and a writer for The Chicago Defender.[12] She helped support Ellison financially while he wrote Invisible Man by working for American Medical Center for Burma Frontiers (the charity supporting Gordon S. In 1985, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.[21][22] In 1986, his Going to the Territory was published; this is a collection of seventeen essays that included insight into southern novelist William Faulkner and Ellison's friend Richard Wright, as well as the music of Duke Ellington and the contributions of African Americans to America's national identity.[23]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7642.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7642.txt