1940's The Arts | "Richard Wright's Blues"

Book review

By: Ralph Ellison

Date: 1945

Source: Ellison, Ralph. "Richard Wright's Blues." In Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison, ed. John F. Callahan. New York: Modern Library, 1995, 128–133. Originally published in The Antioch Review, Summer 1945, 128–133.

About the Author: Ralph Ellison (1914–1994), a novelist and essay writer, was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He attended the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama on a music scholarship but soon turned to writing fiction. He moved to New York where as an editor for the New Masses he wrote influential essays, book reviews, and short stories. His novel Invisible Man (1952) established him as one of the foremost African American intellectuals in the years immediately following World War II (1939–1945).

Introduction

Ralph Ellison's friend and fellow novelist Richard Wright is the...