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 ...

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 may be the preeminent African-American author of the 20 th century, though he published only one novel, 1952’s “Invisible Man.” He enjoyed a highly successful career in American letters, ...

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 ...

Following the release of Invisible Man, fans of Ralph Ellison craved another novel. Ellison died before publishing his second book. There are now plans for the lost writings to be released. Washington ...

Ralph Ellison, author of what many consider to be the greatest American novel of the 20th Century, was a complicated man. Brilliant, yet complex. Born in 1914 in the deeply segregated neighborhood of ...

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 ...

A sympathetic yet scrupulously evenhanded portrait of a famed and influential author whose career might be described as a promise unfulfilled, "Ralph Ellison: An American Journey" is bound to ...

The Lives They Lived, an annual issue in The Times Magazine, was the idea of the director David Frankel. By David W. Dunlap From Ralph Ellison to Harper Lee, those who made great work in one field — ...