Ralph Ellison (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Ralph Waldo Ellison’s Invisible Man has a prominent place in the American literary canon. Indeed, some critics have argued that Ellison wrote the great American novel. When Invisible Man first appeared, it was hailed as a masterful depiction of black life in America, and Ellison was received as the first black writer to join the distinguished company of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. At the same time, a naturalistic strain was noted in his fiction, which allied him with such writers as Theodore Dreiser and Richard Wright. Ellison enjoyed a unique position among...
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