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Albert Murray (writer)
American writer
For other people named Albert Murray, see Albert Murray (disambiguation).
Albert L. Murray (May 12, 1916 – August 18, 2013) was an American literary and music critic, novelist, essayist, and biographer.
His books include The Omni-Americans, South to a Very Old Place, and Stomping the Blues.
Biography
Early life
Murray was born in Nokomis, Alabama. His biological mother, Sudie Graham, gave him up for adoption to Hugh and Mattie Murray.[1] He grew up in the Magazine Point area of Mobile, Alabama.[2]
He attended Tuskegee Institute on scholarship and received a B.S.
in education in 1939. One of his fellow students was Ralph Ellison, who would later write the novel Invisible Man (1952), which established his reputation and gave him a lifetime income.[3]
Murray briefly enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Michigan before returning to Tuskegee in 1940 to teach literature and composi