Ellis, Trey (Personal Name)

His Platitudes, c1988: CIP t.p. (Trey ELlis) publisher data (resides New York City; attended Stanford Univ.; his first novel)

Contemp. Lit. Crit., v. 55 (b. 1962)

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, accessed April 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Ellis, Trey; essayist, journalist, fiction writer; born 1962 in Connecticut, United States; graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; BA in creative writing from Stanford University; his novels, Platitudes (1988) and Home Repairs (1993) were testimonials to a declaration of artistic independence from earlier generations of African American writers; published his novel Right Here, Right Now (1999))