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 partnered ...

Many people don't realize that novelist Ralph Ellison, best-known as the author of Invisible Man, was first an accomplished trumpeter and a student of musical composition, especially jazz. In Living ...

Ralph Ellison may be the preeminent African-American author of the 20 th century, though he published only one novel, 1952’s “Invisible Man.” He enjoyed a highly successful career in American letters, ...

Before he became a writer, Ralph Ellison was an emerging photographer. Rarely-seen documentary images, gathered in a forthcoming book, reveal his lifelong engagement with the camera. By Arthur Lubow ...

Ralph Ellison, author of what many consider to be the greatest American novel of the 20th Century, was a complicated man. Brilliant, yet complex. Born in 1914 in the deeply segregated neighborhood of ...

For by a trick of fate (our racial problems notwithstanding) the human imagination is integrative—and the same is true of the centrifugal force that inspirits the democratic process. And while fiction ...

As a teenage wannabe novelist, I read and re-read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, stunned by its portrayal of a human being on the margins looking in, while trying to desperately milk an ounce of his ...

Ralph Ellison is the subject of the PBS "American Masters" documentary that airs at 8 p.m. Tuesday. The show marks the 50th anniversary of Ellison's great novel "Invisible Man." NEW YORK -- Ralph ...