... clothes every day." Only three years after his birth, Ellison's father passed away. Because of this, his mother was forced to work as a nursemaid, janitress, and domestic in order to take care of herself as well as her two boys. At the age of six, Ralph began to attend Frederick Douglass Elementary School in Oklahoma City. Ellison was very bright student and his quest for knowledge ... a book set in Nazi Germany in a prisoner-of-war camp called "King of the Bingo Game."" When Ellison was asked about the story, he said, "It had the realism that goes beyond and becomes surrealism."" During...

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