Flying Home and Other Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1997)
At a glance:
- Author: Ralph Ellison
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Discrimination, Racism, South or Southerners, Prejudices or antipathies, World War II, Novelists, Accidents, Lynching, Pilots or pilotage
Shortly before he died in 1994, Ralph Ellison told his literary executor John F. Callahan that he wanted to publish a collection of his short stories and hinted that he had some unpublished stories that no one had ever seen. After Ellison’s death, as Callahan began to review the thousands of pages of manuscript of Ellison’s long-awaited unpublished second novel to see if they could be brought together into a final text, he discovered a box that was full of old magazines, clippings, and duplicate printouts from the novel. At the bottom of the box he found a brown imitation-leather...
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