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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Ralph Ellison
Born: March 1, 1914
Died: April 16, 1994 (aged 80)
Bio: Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.
Known for:
- Invisible Man (1952)
- Shadow and Act (1964)
- Juneteenth
- Living with Music
- Going to the territory (1986)
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