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Ellison dies

Saturday 16 April 1994 23:02 BST
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NEW YORK - Ralph Ellison, 80, one of the giants of 20th-century American literature, died yesterday of pancreatic cancer. Ellison wrote just one novel, Invisible Man, a searing account of black life in the United States that was published in 1952. His metaphor of black America being invisible to white America struck home with millions of readers of all colours and languages. Reuter

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