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.

March 1, 2014 would have been Ralph Waldo Ellison’s 100th birthday, so I’d like to use this occasion to call attention to a novel that remains news more than a half-century after it was published.

Sixty years after Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man was published, we still haven’t woken up from the national nightmare he describes. Nathaniel Rich on its terrifying vision.

Ellison drew on his own struggles to create Invisible Man. He was born in Oklahoma City to Lewis and Ida Ellison, who named him Ralph Waldo Ellison after the 19th century American writer Emerson ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another powerful reminder appeared this summer at the Art Institute of Chicago in its exhibition “Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem,” which runs until August 28.

He wrote one novel published 42 years ago and has been celebrated ever since as one of the giants of 20th century American literature. The writer is Ralph Ellison. The book is Invisible Man, a ...

Both of Parks’ collaborations with Ellison are the subject of Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem, an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, which opens on Saturday and ...

To Ralph Ellison, being American, whatever one’s background, meant being somehow black. Ralph Ellison: An American Journey will be broadcast on most PBS stations from 9 to 10:30 p.m. Eastern ...

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.

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