"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who ... through traditional narratives — are all themes that Ralph Ellison brought to his work." His father died at the age of 39 after ...

Looking for guidance, I picked up Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, “Invisible Man,” which had been a fixture of the “next to read” pile on my bookshelf for years. “I am invisible ...

Click here to R.S.V.P. to a virtual conversation about “Invisible Man,” to be led by Adam Bradley and held on June 17. I first saw Ralph Ellison when I was 19 years old and he had already ...

March 1, 2014 would have been Ralph Waldo Ellison’s 100th ... I invite you to seize the occasion of Ellison’s 100th birthday to read “Invisible Man.” Or reread it. It takes a little ...

Ralph Ellison’s novel “Invisible Man” has been banned from school libraries in Randolph County, N.C. The book is considered by many to be an masterful novel dealing with race in America.

For a generation marked by civil rights battles, the arrival of Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man in 1952 signaled a new chapter in how people of color were depicted in literature. Ellison’s ...

“I am an invisible man.” So begins the most important book on American race relations since “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” published 50 years ago ...

One of the great mysteries of 20 th-century literary history is why Ralph Ellison never completed the highly anticipated second novel that he worked on for four decades after Invisible Man was ...

Ralph Ellison wrote that sentence in 1945 ... Ellison carved his masterpiece, the 1952 novel “Invisible Man.” The book follows the story of a black man who holes up in a basement lair in ...

“Invisible Man” makes overt demands on its readers ... s Wrong With the American Novel.” In the symposium, Ralph Ellison remarked that “I just feel that we are called upon to do a big ...

Fans of the celebrated American novelist Ralph Ellison will soon have a chance to view the Invisible Man author through an entirely new lens. The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust has ...

And on some of the recommended reading lists circulating online — and in this opinion piece by NPR’s Scott Simon — is Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, a novel that began in a barn here ...