In Memoriam: Ralph Ellison

Died April 16, 1994, New York, NY

To commemorate the thirty-first anniversary of Ralph Ellison’s death, the Best American Essays newsletter shares the Library of Congress celebration of Ralph Ellison, featuring writers Danielle Evans and Jabari Asim.

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See also:

Read “Seeing Ralph Ellison” by David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1994.

View artist Jack Whitten’s painting “Black Monolith, II (For Ralph Ellison),” 1994.

View “A Man Becomes Invisible”, a collaborative photography collection by Gordon Parks and Ellison, 1952.