![]() ![]() Ironically, Ellison went on to receive 12 honorary doctorate degrees from such prestigious universities as Tuskegee Institute, Rutgers University, the University of Michigan, and Harvard University. He also became a game hunter to keep himself alive, a skill he says he learned from reading Hemingway.Ĭompleting only three years majoring in music at Tuskegee, Ellison sometimes referred to himself as a college dropout. ![]() During that time, he worked at a variety of jobs including janitor, shoeshine boy, jazz musician, and freelance photographer. ![]() He began playing the trumpet at age eight and, at age eighteen, attended Tuskegee Institute in Montgomery, Alabama, studying music from 1933 to 1936. ![]() Ellison attended Frederick Douglass School in Oklahoma City, receiving lessons in symphonic composition. Ralph Waldo Ellison was born March 1, 1914, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Lewis Alfred Ellison, a construction foreman who died when Ellison was only three years old, and the former Ida Milsap, a church stewardess, who used to bring him books she borrowed from the houses she cleaned. ![]()
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