Fanny McConnell Ellison

Age: 93

Summary: writer, political activist, theater director and widow of renowned novelist Ralph Ellison who had helped to edit her husband's masterpiece Invisible Man, and who was previously an assistant to the director of the National Urban League.

Cause of Death: Complications from hip surgery

Born: November 27, 1911

Died: November 19, 2005

Location: New York City, New York