Ralph ellison

Ralph Ellison in New York, 1963. After the colossal success of “Invisible Man,” Ralph Ellison struggled for 40 years to finish his second novel, “Juneteenth.”

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.

Kevin Young on how sixty years of the writer Ralph Ellison’s letters chart his evolution from iconoclast to icon.

These Ralph Ellison quotes will inspire you to pursue greatness, regardless of where you’re coming from. Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar. He is known for producing some of the most highly regarded works in American literature. Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on March 1, 1914, Ellison and his family had […]

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Troy Patterson writes about a passage in Ralph Ellison’s posthumous novel “Juneteenth” that speaks to the vital importance of the holiday.

Cartier-Bresson’s Faulkner, Philippe Halsman’s Nabokov, and other classic portraits of literary greats.

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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.

Ralph Ellison - in 1936 in NYC he joined Langston Hughes, Richard Wright and others into the Federal Writers' Project.