Ralph Ellisonās most famous work is his novel Invisible Man. Published in 1952, it tells of a naive and idealistic (and, significantly, nameless) Southern Black youth who goes to Harlem, joins the fight against white oppression, and ends up ignored by his fellow Black citizens as well as by the white people he encounters. The novel won the 1953 National Book Award for fiction.
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