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.
Lauren O'Neal is an MFA student at San Francisco State University. Her writing has appeared in publications like Slate, The New Inquiry, and The Hairpin. You can follow her on Twitter at @laureneoneal.
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