“It got me interested in literature,” Mr. Eliot’s, of course - and that turned out to be the most influential book in his life. Just about that time, though, along came “The Waste Land” - T.S. That got him to New York, bent on exploring stone with a hammer and clay with a wire gimmick. It turned out that he was born in Oklahoma City in 1914 and spent three years at the Tuskegee Institute, where he studied music and composition. Before putting him on the record as a thinking, talking chap, it seemed a good idea to root around in his biography. Ellison has been, it must be admitted, obscure. Though up until this relatively triumphant event Mr. The name is Ralph Ellison, heard here and there and one hopes everywhere because of his first, distinguished novel, “Invisible Man.” And to be heard of in the future, if predictions are worth anything at all.
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