TY - GEN AU - Ellison,Ralph AU - Ellison,Fanny McConnell AU - Ellison,Ralph AU - Ellison,Ralph AU - Ellison,Ralph TI - Ralph Ellison papers, KW - Bearden, Romare, KW - Bellow, Saul KW - Brooks, Harry, KW - Calicutt, Harold KW - Cheever, John KW - Ciardi, John, KW - Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, KW - Davis, Henry B. O., KW - Dawson, William Levi, KW - Engle, Paul, KW - Fabre, Michel KW - Harper, Michael S., KW - Hersey, John, KW - Hughes, Langston, KW - Hyman, Phoebe KW - Hyman, Stanley Edgar, KW - Jackson, Shirley, KW - Johnson, James Weldon, KW - McPherson, James Alan, KW - Murray, Albert KW - Newhall, Joseph F. KW - Olmanson, Myron Donald KW - Scott, Nathan A. KW - Seagrave, Gordon Stifler, KW - Warren, Robert Penn, KW - Wright, Richard, KW - Ellison family. KW - McConnell family. KW - American Medical Center for Burma KW - Bennington College KW - Carnegie Commission on Educational Television KW - Colonial Williamsburg Foundation KW - Federal Writers' Project KW - Museum of the City of New York KW - Negro People's Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) KW - New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) KW - Wake Forest University KW - African American authors KW - African Americans KW - Illinois KW - Chicago KW - American literature KW - Art KW - Civil rights KW - Literature KW - Music KW - Political science KW - Sports KW - Authors KW - itoamc KW - Educators N1 - Restrictions apply N2 - 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 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002008 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002008.3 ER -