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15. Postwar Voices an the ‘Beat Generation’ Richard Wright—Native Son Ralph Ellison—Invisible Man James Baldwin—Go Tell it on the Mountain Singer and Bellow: both won the Nobel Prize for Literature; both write in Yiddish (the language used by European Jews which had helped preserve Jewish culture, isolated but intact, until the early 20th century. Tennessee Williams—Street Car Named Desire is considered his best play. Arthur Miller portrayed the common man pressured by society: his greatest play, Death of a Salesman, turned a second-rate traveling salesman, Willy Loman , into a quasi-tragic he