Ellison, Ralph. creator mixed material monographic eng 74,800 314 25 143 General correspondence; organizational correspondence and reports; drafts, notes, and production files for novels, essays, poetry, short stories, reviews, and other writings; speeches, lectures, and interviews; reference file; Ellison and McConnell family papers; and other papers documenting Ellison's career and development as a writer. Among the many works represented are Going to the Territory (1985), Invisible Man (1952), and Shadow and Act (1964). Includes material on Ellison's affiliations with such charitable, cultural, and educational institutions as Bennington College, Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Museum of the City of New York, New School for Social Research, and Wake Forest University. Also documented are his research for the Federal Writers' Project and his many teaching assignments. Subjects include art, civil rights, literature, music, politics, and sports. Papers of his wife, Fanny McConnell Ellison, pertain to her work for the American Medical Center for Burma; her contributions as one of the founders of the Negro People's Theatre, Chicago, Ill.; and African Americans in Chicago from the 1930s to the 1960s. Correspondents include Romare Bearden, Saul Bellow, Harry Brooks, Harold Calicutt, John Cheever, John Ciardi, Kenneth Bancroft Clark, Henry B.O. Davis, William Levi Dawson, Paul Engle, Michel Fabre, Michael S. Harper, John Hersey, Langston Hughes, Phoebe Hyman, Stanley Edgar Hyman, Shirley Jackson, James Weldon Johnson, James Alan McPherson, Albert Murray, Joseph F. Newhall, Myron Donald Olmanson, Nathan A. Scott, Gordon Stifler Seagrave, Robert Penn Warren, and Richard Wright. Restrictions apply. Audio and video recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Books and some artifacts transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Flute and sheet music transferred to Library of Congress Music Division. Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. African American author and educator. Born 1914; died 1994. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002008 Bearden, Romare 1911-1988 Correspondence Bellow, Saul Correspondence Brooks, Harry 1895-1970 Correspondence Calicutt, Harold Correspondence Cheever, John Correspondence Ciardi, John 1916-1986 Correspondence Clark, Kenneth Bancroft 1914-2005 Correspondence Davis, Henry B. O 1911- Correspondence Dawson, William Levi 1899-1990 Correspondence Engle, Paul 1908-1991 Correspondence Fabre, Michel Correspondence Harper, Michael S 1938- Correspondence Hersey, John 1914-1993 Correspondence Hughes, Langston 1902-1967 Correspondence Hyman, Phoebe Correspondence Hyman, Stanley Edgar 1919-1970 Correspondence Jackson, Shirley 1916-1965 Correspondence Johnson, James Weldon 1871-1938 Correspondence McPherson, James Alan 1943- Correspondence Murray, Albert Correspondence Newhall, Joseph F Correspondence Olmanson, Myron Donald Correspondence Scott, Nathan A Correspondence Seagrave, Gordon Stifler 1897-1965 Correspondence Warren, Robert Penn 1905-1989 Correspondence Wright, Richard 1908-1960 Correspondence Ellison family McConnell family American Medical Center for Burma. Bennington College. Carnegie Commission on Educational Television. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Federal Writers' Project. Museum of the City of New York. Negro People's Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) Wake Forest University. African American authors African Americans Illinois Chicago American literature American literature African American authors Art Civil rights Literature Music Political science Sports Authors Educators Ellison, Fanny McConnell. Ellison, Ralph. Ellison, Ralph. Ellison, Ralph. mm 96083111 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms002008 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms002008.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002008 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002008.3 Restrictions apply. DLC 960327 20260227111725.0 mm 96083111