The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison - Ralph Ellison

Written by Ralph Ellison
Read by Dominic Hoffman, John F. Callahan
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

These extensive and revealing letters span the life of Ralph Ellison and provide a remarkable window into the great writer’s life and work, his friendships, rivalries, anxieties, and all the questions about identity, art, and the American soul that bedeviled and inspired him until his death. They include early notes to his mother, written as an impoverished college student; lively exchanges with the most distinguished American writers and thinkers of his time, from Romare Bearden to Saul Bellow; and letters to friends and family from his hometown of Oklahoma City, whose influence would always be paramount.

These letters are beautifully rendered first-person accounts of Ellison’s life and work and his observations of a changing world, showing his metamorphosis from a wide-eyed student into a towering public intellectual who confronted and articulated America’s complexities.

Edited by John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner with introductory essays by John F. Callahan

49 hrs and 5 mins
December 17, 2019