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Steamboats Are Ruining Everything

Steamboats Are Ruining Everything

A writer in Brooklyn

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Some friends who live in Harlem tipped me off that the building where Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man is for sale. In Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius, Lawrence Jackson writes that Ellison moved into the ground floor apartment of 749 St. Nicholas Ave., in Harlem, in 1946, and that he and his wife kept Scotch terriers in the backyard.

Posted on 19 September 2006Author Caleb CrainCategories writers' homes

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