Plainfield is a town on the northwestern edge of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, about 25 miles east of Pittsfield and 30 miles northwest of Northampton. The population was 633 at the
Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.
Plainfield, Massachusetts
…William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), poet, philosopher Ralph Ellison, African-American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer Martha J. Lamb, author, historian…
Ellison in 1961
Ralph Ellison monument in front of 730 Riverside Drive, New York City. The birthyear is the incorrect year Ellison would usually offer