![]() ![]() Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man won the 1953 National Book Award for Fiction, the first for an African American writer. ![]() and these words were ‘I am an invisible man.’ I didn’t know quite what they meant, and I didn’t know where the idea came from, but the moment I started to abandon them I thought: ‘Well maybe I should try to discover exactly what lay behind the statement.'” – Ralph Ellison Ralph Ellison, photographed in 1960 by a United States Information Agency staff photographer. We thank Naomi Coquillion and the staff of Minerva’s Kaleidoscope for allowing us to repost this blog. ![]()
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