A new children’s biography about famed Oklahoman and "Invisible Man" author Ralph Ellison is now on bookshelves.

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 ...

2007-07-07T22:31:52-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/63e/198180-m.jpgArnold Rampersad talked about his book Ralph Ellison: A Biography, published by Knopf ...

Writers dream of finding the acclaim that Ralph Ellison received when his first novel, "Invisible Man," was published. Winner of the National Book Award in 1953 -- the same year Hemingway's "The Old ...

In 1952, Ralph Ellison introduced a new kind of black protagonist: The Invisible Man was educated and self-aware, and had a broad intellectual... The Life and Legacy of Ralph Ellison In 1952, Ralph ...

LAWRENCE Jackson's Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius is well-written and painstakingly documented proof of the adage that it takes years to become an overnight success. This first biography of Ralph ...

Ralph Ellison is most famous for two things: writing the classic Invisible Man and never publishing another novel during his lifetime. The story of his supposed writer’s block has become almost as ...

Arnold Rampersad's new biography re-examines the life of Ralph Ellison, the influential cultural critic and author of Invisible Man, and offers insights about why Ellison never produced a second ...

In 1952, Ralph Ellison introduced a new kind of black protagonist: The Invisible Man was educated and self-aware, and had a broad intellectual curiosity. He was invisible, Ellison wrote, but not ...

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 ...