Happy birthday to Ralph Ellison, who would have turned 99 today.
His fiction was revelatory—Invisible Man won the National Book Award in 1953—as were his essays on literature, music, and race.
You can read a 1977 interview with him here.
Happy birthday to Ralph Ellison, who would have turned 99 today.
His fiction was revelatory—Invisible Man won the National Book Award in 1953—as were his essays on literature, music, and race.
You can read a 1977 interview with him here.
