RALPH ELLISON(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　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 literature. But Ellison’s strange
inability to finish a second novel, despite his dogged efforts and
soaring prestige, made him a supremely enigmatic figure. Arnold
Rampersad skillfully tells the story of a writer whose thunderous
novel and astute, courageous essays on race, literature, and
culture assure him of a permanent place in our literary
heritage.
　　Starting with Ellison’s hardscrabble childhood in Oklahoma and
his ordeal as a student in Alabama, Rampersad documents his
improbable, painstaking rise in New York to a commanding place on
the literary scene. With scorching honesty but also fair and
compassionate, Rampersad lays bare his subject’s troubled
psychology and its impact on his art and on the people about
him.This book is both the definitive biography of Ellison and a
stellar model of literary biography.

　　Arnold Rampersad is Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities
at Stanford University, where he is also Sara Hart Kimball
Professor in the Humanities and a member of the English department.
He is a recipient of fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is
also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. He has written for The New Republic, The Times
Literary Supplement, The New York Times Book Review, and The
Washington Post.

　　“Startling, illuminating. . . . [Rampersad] treats Ellison as
a man, not as a deity.”—The New Yorker“Astute . . .
revelatory. . . . Consistently intriguing.” —The Washington Post
Book World“Illuminating and richly reported. . . . Rampersad is
uniquely qualified to examine the Ellison case.” —The New York
Times Book Review“Rampersad is as meticulous as he is
graceful.” —Newsday