Ralph ellison

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man became a classic of American literature. While many critics recognized its quality when it came out in 1952, a Pulitzer Fiction juror went out of his way to trash the book.

After the colossal success of “Invisible Man,” Ralph Ellison struggled for 40 years to finish his second novel, “Juneteenth.”

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Breaking with the dominant literary styles among Black writers at the time, the author expanded the limits of realism to create a world that was, and remains, all too familiar.

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“The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.” ~ Ralph Ellison, b. 1 March 1914

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years He describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the…

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