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1952 – Invisible Man wins award
Author Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man wins the National Book Award
1944 – 1944 Novelist Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia.
1944 Novelist Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia.
1906 – Death of Paul Laurence Dunbar (33), Dayton, Ohio
Death of poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar (33), Dayton, Ohio.
