The definitive biography of an important American cultural intellectual of the twentieth century--Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece Invisible Man. In 1953, Ellison's explosive story of a young ...
On Arnold Rampersad’s recent biography. Still in his thirties and apparently with a great career ahead of him, Ellison applied himself to writing a second novel that would live up to his own high ...
In his introduction to Living with Music, Robert O’Meally recounts asking a question of Ralph Ellison that gets to the heart of Ellison’s literary project: “Don’t you think the Harlem Renaissance ...
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 ...