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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