![]() ![]() He only spent three years studying music before he dropped out of college. He would also become a game hunter which he has asserted is a skill he got from reading a lot of Ernest Hemingway. It was during this time that he worked several odd jobs including freelance photographer, janitor, jazz musician, and shoeshine boy. Aged eight, he began playing the trumpet and went to the Montgomery, Alabama based Tuskegee Institute when he was eighteen to study music. His mother was church stewardess Ida Milsap that brought him all the books he wanted to read from the many houses she was contracted to clean.Įllison went to Oklahoma City’s Frederick Douglass School, where he studied symphonic composition. ![]() The author was born in 1914 to construction foreman Alfred Ellison who died while he was just three. Ralph Waldo Ellison is a literary fiction author from Oklahoma City in the United States. ![]()
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