The Resource Ralph Ellison : a biography, Arnold Rampersad
Ralph Ellison : a biography, Arnold Rampersad
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The item Ralph Ellison : a biography, Arnold Rampersad represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Union Presbyterian Seminary Libraries.
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- Summary
- The definitive biography of an important American cultural intellectual of the twentieth century--Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece Invisible Man. In 1953, Ellison's explosive story of a young black man's search for truth and identity catapulted him to national prominence. Ellison earned many honors, but his failure to publish a second novel, despite years of striving, haunted him for the rest of his life. Rampersad, the first scholar given complete access to Ellison's papers, provides a complex portrait of an unusual artist and human being. This biography describes a man of magnetic personality who counted Saul Bellow, Langston Hughes, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, Richard Wilbur, Albert Murray, and John Cheever among his closest friends; a man whose life and art were shaped mainly by his unyielding desire to produce magnificent art and by his resilient faith in the moral and cultural strength of America.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 657 p., [24] p. of plates
- Contents
-
- In the territory
- Leaving the territory
- In a land most strange
- A shock of transition
- The recognition of necessity
- The numbed and the seething
- A mighty book, a mighty theme
- The agon of writing
- In the home stretch
- Finish line
- Annus mirabilis
- Second act
- Adventure in Rome
- The pleasures of home
- Hanging fire
- Tell it like it is, baby
- A "lone-star" Negro
- Professor in the humanities
- The monkey on his back
- The uncanny penetration of the past
- Flying home
- Isbn
- 9780375408274
- Label
- Ralph Ellison : a biography
- Title
- Ralph Ellison
- Title remainder
- a biography
- Statement of responsibility
- Arnold Rampersad
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The definitive biography of an important American cultural intellectual of the twentieth century--Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece Invisible Man. In 1953, Ellison's explosive story of a young black man's search for truth and identity catapulted him to national prominence. Ellison earned many honors, but his failure to publish a second novel, despite years of striving, haunted him for the rest of his life. Rampersad, the first scholar given complete access to Ellison's papers, provides a complex portrait of an unusual artist and human being. This biography describes a man of magnetic personality who counted Saul Bellow, Langston Hughes, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, Richard Wilbur, Albert Murray, and John Cheever among his closest friends; a man whose life and art were shaped mainly by his unyielding desire to produce magnificent art and by his resilient faith in the moral and cultural strength of America.--From publisher description
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rampersad, Arnold
- Dewey number
-
- 818/.5409
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS3555.L625
- LC item number
- Z8725 2007
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Ellison, Ralph
- Novelists, American
- African American novelists
- Label
- Ralph Ellison : a biography, Arnold Rampersad
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [569]-624) and index
- Contents
- In the territory -- Leaving the territory -- In a land most strange -- A shock of transition -- The recognition of necessity -- The numbed and the seething -- A mighty book, a mighty theme -- The agon of writing -- In the home stretch -- Finish line -- Annus mirabilis -- Second act -- Adventure in Rome -- The pleasures of home -- Hanging fire -- Tell it like it is, baby -- A "lone-star" Negro -- Professor in the humanities -- The monkey on his back -- The uncanny penetration of the past -- Flying home
- Control code
- 000275106
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 657 p., [24] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780375408274
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2006026464
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 000275106
- (OCoLC)70921481
- Label
- Ralph Ellison : a biography, Arnold Rampersad
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [569]-624) and index
- Contents
- In the territory -- Leaving the territory -- In a land most strange -- A shock of transition -- The recognition of necessity -- The numbed and the seething -- A mighty book, a mighty theme -- The agon of writing -- In the home stretch -- Finish line -- Annus mirabilis -- Second act -- Adventure in Rome -- The pleasures of home -- Hanging fire -- Tell it like it is, baby -- A "lone-star" Negro -- Professor in the humanities -- The monkey on his back -- The uncanny penetration of the past -- Flying home
- Control code
- 000275106
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 657 p., [24] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780375408274
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2006026464
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 000275106
- (OCoLC)70921481
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