Novelist (1-Mar-1914 — 16-Apr-1994)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Kimberly W. Benston (editor). Speaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison. Howard University Press. 1987. 438pp.

Mark Busby. Ralph Ellison. Boston, MA: Twayne. 1991.

Robert J. Butler (editor). The Critical Response to Ralph Ellison. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2000. 296pp.

John F. Callahan. A Casebook on Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man". New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. 1972. 321pp.

Jacqueline Covo. The Blinking Eye: Ralph Waldo Ellison and His American, French, German, and Italian Critics, 1952-1971: Bibliographic Essays and a Checklist. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. 1974. 214pp.

Beth Eddy. The Rites of Identity: The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2003. 224pp.

Julia Eichelberger. Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty. Louisiana State University Press. 1999. 248pp.

Maryemma Graham; Amritjit Singh (editors). Conversations with Ralph Ellison. University Press of Mississippi. 1995. 409pp.

John Hersey (editor). Ralph Ellison: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1974. 180pp.

Lawrence Patrick Jackson. Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons. 2002. 498pp.

R. Jothiprakash. Commitment as a Theme in African American Literature: A Study of James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall Press. 1994. 211pp.

Daniel Y. Kim. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity. Stanford University Press. 2005. 286pp.

Richard Kostelanetz. Politics in the African-American Novel: James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1991. 200pp.

Lucas E. Morel. Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man. University Press of Kentucky. 2004. 249pp.

Albert Murray; John Callahan (editors). Trading Twelve: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray. New York: Modern Library. 2000. 237pp.

Alan Nadel. Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon. University of Iowa Press. 1991. 181pp.

Robert G. O'Meally. The Craft of Ralph Ellison. Harvard University Press. 1980. 212pp.

Horace A. Porter. Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America. University of Iowa Press. 2001. 192pp.

Ross Posnock. The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison. Cambridge University Press. 2005. 256pp.

Arnold Rampersad. Ralph Ellison: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2007. 657pp.

John M. Reilly (editor). Twentieth Century Interpretations of "Invisible Man": A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1970.

H. William Rice. Ralph Ellison and the Politics of the Novel. Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003. 160pp.

Edith Schor. Visible Ellison: A Study of Ralph Ellison's Fiction. Greenwood Press\. 1993.

Gregory Stephens. On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob Marley. Cambridge University Press. 1999. 342pp.

Steven C. Tracy. Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison. Oxford University Press. 2004. 296pp.

Kenneth W. Warren. So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism. University of Chicago Press. 2003. 141pp.

Jerry Gafio Watts. Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics and the Dilemmas of Afro-American Intellectual Life. University of North Carolina Press. 1994. 156pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

7. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.345)

8. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.205)

9. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.477)

10. Webster's American Biographies (p.318)

11. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.80)

12. Contemporary Novelists (pp.388-90)

13. Current Biography, 1968 Yearbook (pp.126-28)

14. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.227)

15. World Authors 1950-1970 (pp.439-41)

16. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.315)

17. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.221)

18. Public Intellectuals: A Study in Decline (p.196)

19. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.167)

20. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.5)

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