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Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) was born in Oklahoma and trained as a musician at Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936, at which time a visit to New York and a meeting with Richard Wright led to his first attempts at fiction, and eventually winning the National Book Award for Invisible Man. Appointed to the Academy of American Arts and Letters in 1964, Ellison taught at several institutions, including Bard College, the University of Chicago, and New York University, where he was Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities.
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
Juneteenth
Flying Home And Other Stories
Three Days Before the Shooting . . .
Living with Music
Trading Twelves
Flying Home
Invisible Man
Shadow and Act
Going to the Territory

Books

The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
Juneteenth
Flying Home And Other Stories
Three Days Before the Shooting . . .
Living with Music
Trading Twelves
Flying Home
Invisible Man
Shadow and Act
Going to the Territory

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