Fans of the celebrated American novelist Ralph Ellison will soon have a chance to view the Invisible Man author through an entirely new lens. The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust has partnered ...

These three volumes have been redesigned and reissued to commemorate the first anniversary of Ellison's death. (Mar.) Ralph Waldo Ellison, Author, Albert Murray, Author, John Callahan, Editor Modern ...

As a teenage wannabe novelist, I read and re-read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, stunned by its portrayal of a human being on the margins looking in, while trying to desperately milk an ounce of his ...

Before he became a writer, Ralph Ellison was an emerging photographer. Rarely-seen documentary images, gathered in a forthcoming book, reveal his lifelong engagement with the camera. By Arthur Lubow ...

Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”, his first novel, is widely-considered one of the great works of modern literature. After it came out in 1952, Ellison wrote and wrote, and readers waited and waited, ...

He was a man of many talents. The late Ralph Ellison wrote the National Book Award-winning novel “Invisible Man,” which focused on an African-American civil rights worker from the south who, upon his ...

Many people don't realize that novelist Ralph Ellison, best-known as the author of Invisible Man, was first an accomplished trumpeter and a student of musical composition, especially jazz. In Living ...

Literature is a lonely art, but writers keep company with the heroes on their bookshelves. We asked five Festival of Books participants to pay tribute to authors who inspired them. I began my ...

Today in books and publishing: Duel of the Andrew Cuomo biographies, a call to leave Ralph Ellison alone, and science explains why books smell like books. You can thank acid in cheap paper and ink for ...

What a wonderful world of possibilities are unfolded for the children!” wrote novelist Ralph Ellison in 1954, in response to Brown v. Board of Education. He continued: “For me there is still the ...

Confronted with something as messy and complicated as a human life, a biographer can too easily fall into the trap of simplification, seizing on one prominent aspect of the subject's character and ...