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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1952
  • Latest Book:
    February 2018
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Book List in Order: 7 titles



  • Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for ...



  • With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America....



  • The work of one of the most formidable figures in American intellectual life."

    -- Washington Post Book World

    The seventeen essays collected in this volume prove that Ralph Ellison was not only one of America's most dazzlingly innovative...



  • These 13 stories by the author of The Invisible Man "approach the elegance of Chekhov" (Washington Post) and provide "early explorations of (Ellison's) lifelong fascination with the 'complex fate' and 'beautiful absurdity' of American identity" (John...



  • “Ellison sought no less than to create a Book of Blackness, a literary composition of the tradition at its most sublime and fundamental." -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., TIME From the renowned author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison’...



  • At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisibl...






Award-Winning Books by Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man
1953 National Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ralph Ellison has published 7 books.

Ralph Ellison does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Black Ball, was published in February 2018.

The first book by Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, was published in January 1952.

No. Ralph Ellison does not write books in series.