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How Ralph Ellison Got Invisible Man Into the Canon
The “author myth” surrounding Ralph Ellison usually centers on the follow-up novel to Invisible Man that never happened, the many years of promises unfulfilled. But if writing novel #2 was so difficult for Ellison, how did novel #1 happen?
If you want to know when and how Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man, Google is fine. The wikipedia entry tells you h…
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