# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-ellison
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:25:48.912Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-ellison"
name: "Ralph Ellison"
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description: "Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953."
tagline: "American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994)"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1914-03-01"
deathDate: "1994-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump