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."