In writing “Invisible Man” the late 1940s, Ralph Ellison brought onto the scene a new kind of black protagonist, one at odds with the characters of the leading black novelist at the time ...

Click here to R.S.V.P. to a virtual conversation about “Invisible Man,” to be led by Adam Bradley and held on June 17. I first saw Ralph Ellison when I was 19 years old and he had already ...

I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Ellison's ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," a sophisticated, allusive novel that captured the perennial human search for personal identity through the prism of a ...

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 ...

“I am an invisible man.” So begins the most important book on American race relations since “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” published 50 years ago ...

While all of these factors contribute to making “Invisible Man” a classic, they all support the main factor: Ellison wrote a novel of ideas. Not a single idea, but a host of them. The American ...

And on some of the recommended reading lists circulating online — and in this opinion piece by NPR’s Scott Simon — is Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, a novel that began in a barn here ...

Looking for guidance, I picked up Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, “Invisible Man,” which had been a fixture of the “next to read” pile on my bookshelf for years. “I am invisible ...

Click here to R.S.V.P. to a virtual conversation about “Invisible Man,” to be led by Adam Bradley and held on June 17. In 1952, the photographer Gordon Parks worked with Ralph Ellison to ...

Those five words captured the experience of many African-Americans of the era, and from that simple declaration, Ellison carved his masterpiece, the 1952 novel “Invisible Man.” The book ...

Ralph Ellison’s novel “Invisible Man” has been banned from school libraries in Randolph County, N.C. The book is considered by many to be an masterful novel dealing with race in America.