Life is a dream.Pedro Calderón de la Barca
“When I discover who I am, I'll be free.”
Novelist · 1913 – 1994
Ralph Ellison was an American novelist from Oklahoma City whose single completed novel, Invisible Man, won the National Book Award in 1953 and became a classic of American literature. Trained first as a jazz musician, he brought a musician's ear to his prose about race and identity.
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