Interviews with the author of Invisible Man and many other works

Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literatur

Himes was equally revealing in the many interviews he granted during his long and tumultuous career in America and France.

Before Ralph Ellison became one of America’s greatest writers, he was a musician and a student of jazz, writing widely on his favorite music for more than fif