Ellison, Ralph

Invisible man by Ralph Ellison ( Book )
238 editions published between 1947 and 2011 in 17 languages and held by 5,536 libraries worldwide
In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly humorous gusto.

Juneteenth : a novel by Ralph Ellison ( Book )
34 editions published between 1999 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 2,763 libraries worldwide
The story of a black man who passes for white and becomes a race-baiting U.S. senator. When he is shot on the Senate floor, the first visitor in hospital is a black musician-turned-preacher who raised him. As the two men talk, their respective stories come out. An unfinished novel by the author of Invisible Man.

Shadow and act by Ralph Ellison ( Book )
44 editions published between 1953 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,366 libraries worldwide

Flying home and other stories by Ralph Ellison ( Book )
20 editions published between 1996 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 1,945 libraries worldwide
Twelve stories by the author of Invisible Man. In I Did Not Learn Their Names, an elderly couple with no money rides the rails to visit a son, A Party Down at the Square is on a lynching, while In a Strange Country is on a black sailor who feels at home in Wales.

Going to the territory by Ralph Ellison ( Book )
17 editions published between 1986 and 1995 in English and held by 1,747 libraries worldwide
Ten "essays, lectures, personal reminiscences, and interviews."

The collected essays of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison ( Book )
16 editions published between 1995 and 2003 in English and held by 1,143 libraries worldwide
Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as "a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race," and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. "Ralph Ellison," wrote Stanley Crouch, "reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans."

Living with music : Ralph Ellison's jazz writings by Ralph Ellison ( Book )
11 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 949 libraries worldwide
"Before Ralph Ellison became one of America's greatest writers, he was a musician and a student of jazz. The author of Invisible Man wrote widely and brilliantly on his favorite music for more than fifty years, immersing himself in the lives and works of America's musicians, some of whom were his close friends. Ellison is, in fact, perhaps the most important jazz analyst we have. In Living with Music, celebrated jazz authority Robert G. O'Meally has collected the very best of Ellison's writings on this subject - each selection vibrant, insightful, and bursting with Ellison's love of the music - in this unique and original anthology."--BOOK JACKET.

Three days before the shooting by Ralph Ellison ( Book )
4 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 947 libraries worldwide
Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, this story is a multi generational saga centered on the assassination of the controversial, race-baiting U.S. senator Adam Sunraider, who's being tended to by "Daddy" Hickman, the elderly black jazz musician turned preacher who raised the orphan Sunraider as a light-skinned black in rural Georgia.

Trading twelves : the selected letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray by Ralph Ellison ( Book )
18 editions published between 2000 and 2010 in English and held by 685 libraries worldwide
"When two jazz musicians trade twelves with each other in a jam session, one musician begins by riffing off twelve bars of music, the other musician throws the twelve bars back through his instrument, the first answers, and so, back and forth, in an ecstatic exchange of ideas and emotions. So it is with these letters, joyful music created by the exchanges between two dear friends." -- Jacket.

Conversations with Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison ( Book )
3 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 548 libraries worldwide
Having published only one novel, Ralph Ellison gained and retained a reputation as one of America's premier authors. Though urged by his admirers and by critics to write more, at the time of his death in 1994 Ellison's renown rested upon a novel published in the 1950s. He remained at the peak of his eminence, acclaimed principally for this single work. But this astonishing book was Invisible Man, one of the cornerstones of modern American literature. In these interviews the author of this masterpiece proves himself intellectually vigorous, witty, and sometimes combative. These conversations about himself and about literature show him to be strongly independent, whether his remarks consider race, art, writing, or culture.