Letter: E

(1914-1994) Novelist, writer. Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Apart from the winter of 1937 spent in Dayton, Ohio, the war years in the merchant marine, and two years (1955-1957) in Rome as a guest of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Ralph Ellison lived in New York City on St. Nicholas … Continued

Writer, author, editor, publisher. “The Child of the Amazon and Other Poems,” was born in Canadaigua, studied at Columbia University and lived in Manhattan. Following his graduation from Williams College in 1905, he did graduate work at Columbia University and taught there from 1907 to 1911. He went on, after salvaging “The Masses” to found … Continued