March 1, 2014 would have been Ralph Waldo Ellison’s 100th birthday, so I’d like to use this occasion to call attention to a novel that remains news more than a half-century after it was published.

Sixty years after Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man was published, we still haven’t woken up from the national nightmare he describes. Nathaniel Rich on its terrifying vision.

Looking for guidance, I picked up Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, “Invisible Man,” which had been a fixture of the “next to read” pile on my bookshelf for years.

In writing "Invisible Man," Ralph Ellison brought onto the scene a new kind of black protagonist, one at odds with the characters of the leading black novelist at the time, Richard Wright.

For a generation marked by civil rights battles, the arrival of Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man in 1952 signaled a new chapter in how people of color were depicted in literature. Ellison’s ...

Ellison drew on his own struggles to create Invisible Man. He was born in Oklahoma City to Lewis and Ida Ellison, who named him Ralph Waldo Ellison after the 19th century American writer Emerson ...

I read Invisible Man in 1996, in a college dorm room just down the road from Harlem. Black Americans were all around me fellow students and neighbours but after three years in America, I hadn't ...

He wrote one novel published 42 years ago and has been celebrated ever since as one of the giants of 20th century American literature. The writer is Ralph Ellison. The book is Invisible Man, a ...

Ralph Ellison’s novel “Invisible Man” has been banned from school libraries in Randolph County, N.C. The book is considered by many to be an masterful novel dealing with race in America.