Famous Trojan Ralph Ellison on display at Founder's Day Luncheon.Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City, on 1st March, 1914. He studied at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama before joining the Federal Writers' Project in New York in 1936. Ellison met Richard Wright who encouraged him and published some of his short stories and reviews in New Challenge and the Negro Quarterly. Other work also appeared in the left-wing journal, New Masses.After the Second World War Ellison worked for seven years on his first novel, Invisible Man (1952). The book tells the story of a Southern black youth who goes to Harlem to join the fight against white oppression. The book was well received and won the National Book Award but Ellison never completed another novel.In 1970 Ellison lectured on black culture and creative writing at New York University. Ralph Ellison, who also published two collections of essays, Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986), died on 16th April, 1994. Flying Home and Other Stories (1996) was published posthumously in 1996.The library at Northeast 23rd Street and Martin Luther King Blvd in Oklahoma City is named for the highly acclaimed author.
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