Dec 20, 2009
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, is one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century. He also published two well-received collections of essays, Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986), which were combined into one volume in The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison (1995). In 1999, a posthumous edition of his long- awaited second novel was published as Juneteenth: A Novel.
Though he won a Rosenwald grant in 1945 on the strength of his short fiction,...
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