“Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss,” these are the words of Nathaniel Branden, a United States psychologist. One person who lived his life by this quote is the American author Ralph Waldo Ellison. Ellison’s integrity and respect for others helped him become an important American literary figure. His most famous works reflected the culture and living conditions of African Americans in their fight for equality. In …showed first 75 words of 791 total…

…showed last 75 words of 791 total…York. After the publication of Invisible Man Ellison’s readers awaited a second novel. Then in 1964 Ellison published Shadow and Act, a three part collection of essays and interviews on literature, music, race, relations, life in the United States, and on Ellison himself. This collection of works established Ellison as an intelligent cultural critic. Then in 1986 Ellison published his second collection of essays entitled Going to the Territory. Ellison died on April 16, 1994 of pancreatic cancer.