Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel "Invisible Man," which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. But Ellison's strange inability to finish a second novel, despite his dogged efforts and soaring prestige, made him a supremely enigmatic figure. Arnold Rampersad skillfully tells the story of a writer whose thunderous novel and astute, courageous essays on race, literature, and culture…
Author: Arnold Rampersad · Original publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007 (first edition, ISBN 9780375408274); paperback (later/standard edition) Vintage Books
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