#writers #GLAM #BlackHistory #RalphEllison
'the Center will embark on an ambitious digitization project to advance the tools scholars use to engage in research on Ellison and create a digital archive...'
www.bard.edu/news/bard-co...
'the Center will embark on an ambitious digitization project to advance the tools scholars use to engage in research on Ellison and create a digital archive...'
www.bard.edu/news/bard-co...
Bard College Launches Ralph Ellison Center, Establishing a Permanent Home for Ellison’s Literary and Intellectual Legacy
As the new school year gets underway, Bard College announced that it has opened the Ralph Ellison Center on its bucolic, Annandale-on-Hudson campus, where Ellison taught from 1958-1961. Key initiative...
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September 26, 2026 at 2:22 PM
#writers #GLAM #BlackHistory #RalphEllison
'the Center will embark on an ambitious digitization project to advance the tools scholars use to engage in research on Ellison and create a digital archive...'
www.bard.edu/news/bard-co...
'the Center will embark on an ambitious digitization project to advance the tools scholars use to engage in research on Ellison and create a digital archive...'
www.bard.edu/news/bard-co...
𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -
A wide variety from various recommendations into the fall and winter!
#books #literature #tbr #elizabethkostova #hannahkezema #robertjconley #renaadawilliams #tilliewalden#marshallgillson #gripp #loislowry#bryancrable #ralphellison #kennethburke #booksky
A wide variety from various recommendations into the fall and winter!
#books #literature #tbr #elizabethkostova #hannahkezema #robertjconley #renaadawilliams #tilliewalden#marshallgillson #gripp #loislowry#bryancrable #ralphellison #kennethburke #booksky
September 1, 2026 at 2:02 PM
𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -
A wide variety from various recommendations into the fall and winter!
#books #literature #tbr #elizabethkostova #hannahkezema #robertjconley #renaadawilliams #tilliewalden#marshallgillson #gripp #loislowry#bryancrable #ralphellison #kennethburke #booksky
A wide variety from various recommendations into the fall and winter!
#books #literature #tbr #elizabethkostova #hannahkezema #robertjconley #renaadawilliams #tilliewalden#marshallgillson #gripp #loislowry#bryancrable #ralphellison #kennethburke #booksky
known as the “Life History and #Folklore Projects.” Many significant #authors, #poets, and #photographers worked for the FWP ( including many women and African-Americans), such as #ZoraNealeHurston, #RalphEllison, #StudsTerkel, #MaySwenson, #SaulBellow, and #RobertMcNeill.’
July 27, 2026 at 12:13 PM
known as the “Life History and #Folklore Projects.” Many significant #authors, #poets, and #photographers worked for the FWP ( including many women and African-Americans), such as #ZoraNealeHurston, #RalphEllison, #StudsTerkel, #MaySwenson, #SaulBellow, and #RobertMcNeill.’
📖 #HombreInvisible, muy buena novela de #RalphEllison. Sabe de lo que quiere hablar y sabe cómo hacerlo, la historia merece la pena, pero es demasiado larga.
7/10.
#Literatura.
7/10.
#Literatura.
June 22, 2026 at 8:27 AM
📖 #HombreInvisible, muy buena novela de #RalphEllison. Sabe de lo que quiere hablar y sabe cómo hacerlo, la historia merece la pena, pero es demasiado larga.
7/10.
#Literatura.
7/10.
#Literatura.
June 19, 2026 at 7:07 AM
The weekly Monday photo essay!
Influence of Gordon Parks.
#Photography #RalphEllison #GordonParks #EmergingMan
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Influence of Gordon Parks.
#Photography #RalphEllison #GordonParks #EmergingMan
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June 15, 2026 at 4:52 AM
The weekly Monday photo essay!
Influence of Gordon Parks.
#Photography #RalphEllison #GordonParks #EmergingMan
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Influence of Gordon Parks.
#Photography #RalphEllison #GordonParks #EmergingMan
👉 photokenarts.substack.com/p/frame-a-vi...
Celebrate some amazing #OklahomaAuthors with us for #NationalOklahomaDay! www.facebook.com/share/p/189B...
#OklahomaPride #LiteraryLegends #OkieWriters #RalphEllison #SEHinton #WoodyGuthrie #WillRogers #AngieDebo #independentauthors #bookstoread #jonmintonbooks
#OklahomaPride #LiteraryLegends #OkieWriters #RalphEllison #SEHinton #WoodyGuthrie #WillRogers #AngieDebo #independentauthors #bookstoread #jonmintonbooks
June 7, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Today in #LaborHistory 4/16/1994: #RalphEllison died. #HarlemRenaissance, #author. Quit Communist Party during #WWII b/c they became too reformist. Wrote Invisible Man as a response to their betrayal. #workingclass #Harlem #marxism #racism #communism #fiction #literature #books #writer
April 16, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Today in #LaborHistory 4/16/1994: #RalphEllison died. #HarlemRenaissance, #author. Quit Communist Party during #WWII b/c they became too reformist. Wrote Invisible Man as a response to their betrayal. #workingclass #Harlem #marxism #racism #communism #fiction #literature #books #writer
#5 jean toomer’s *cane* (1923) is otherworldly. this copy @librarycongress.bsky.social rare book & spec coll div is a 2nd printing & part of the #ralphellison #book #collection. did the 1st printing have a #dustjacket? look at this beautiful #bookplate featuring #aarondouglas #art #blackstudies #dc
March 30, 2026 at 8:50 PM
#5 jean toomer’s *cane* (1923) is otherworldly. this copy @librarycongress.bsky.social rare book & spec coll div is a 2nd printing & part of the #ralphellison #book #collection. did the 1st printing have a #dustjacket? look at this beautiful #bookplate featuring #aarondouglas #art #blackstudies #dc
Author of the Year: 1994.
The most significant author who died in this year.
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994).
#Booksky #AuthoroftheYear #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan #Africanamericanauthors #Americannovelists
The most significant author who died in this year.
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994).
#Booksky #AuthoroftheYear #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan #Africanamericanauthors #Americannovelists
March 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Author of the Year: 1994.
The most significant author who died in this year.
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994).
#Booksky #AuthoroftheYear #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan #Africanamericanauthors #Americannovelists
The most significant author who died in this year.
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994).
#Booksky #AuthoroftheYear #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan #Africanamericanauthors #Americannovelists
Constraints are not your enemy. They’re the thing that stops you from being lazy.
#RalphEllison #InvisibleMan #DrSeuss #KhaledHosseini #TheKiteRunner #SarahJMaas #ACourtofThornsandRoses #Writesly #Booksky #Readsky #5amwriters #6amwriters #ShortReads
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#RalphEllison #InvisibleMan #DrSeuss #KhaledHosseini #TheKiteRunner #SarahJMaas #ACourtofThornsandRoses #Writesly #Booksky #Readsky #5amwriters #6amwriters #ShortReads
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Forget Horoscopes: Your Birth Month Might Actually Explain Your Writing Style
5 writers, 5 birthdays, and the lessons they left behind for everyone still trying to figure out what they’re doing.
open.substack.com
March 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Constraints are not your enemy. They’re the thing that stops you from being lazy.
#RalphEllison #InvisibleMan #DrSeuss #KhaledHosseini #TheKiteRunner #SarahJMaas #ACourtofThornsandRoses #Writesly #Booksky #Readsky #5amwriters #6amwriters #ShortReads
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#RalphEllison #InvisibleMan #DrSeuss #KhaledHosseini #TheKiteRunner #SarahJMaas #ACourtofThornsandRoses #Writesly #Booksky #Readsky #5amwriters #6amwriters #ShortReads
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His personal library, now held by the Library of Congress, has been cataloged on LibraryThing as part of our Legacy Libraries project. www.librarything.com/profile/Ralp...
Ralph Ellison (RalphEllison) | LibraryThing | LibraryThing
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March 1, 2026 at 2:48 PM
His personal library, now held by the Library of Congress, has been cataloged on LibraryThing as part of our Legacy Libraries project. www.librarything.com/profile/Ralp...
Today is the birthday of #RalphEllison, the great African American novelist and literary critic, perhaps best remembered for his National Book Award-winning "Invisible Man." #💙📚 #Booksky
March 1, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Today is the birthday of #RalphEllison, the great African American novelist and literary critic, perhaps best remembered for his National Book Award-winning "Invisible Man." #💙📚 #Booksky
March 1, 2026 at 10:11 AM
... #ralphellison ...
"Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. Ellison wrote Shadow and Act, a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory.
"Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. Ellison wrote Shadow and Act, a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory.
February 11, 2026 at 4:16 AM
... #ralphellison ...
"Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. Ellison wrote Shadow and Act, a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory.
"Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. Ellison wrote Shadow and Act, a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory.
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#OnThisDayInBlackHistory #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan #BlackLiterature #NationalBookAward #BlackExcellence #AfricanAmericanHistory #TheEnglandManor
#OnThisDayInBlackHistory #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan #BlackLiterature #NationalBookAward #BlackExcellence #AfricanAmericanHistory #TheEnglandManor
January 27, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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#OnThisDayInBlackHistory #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan #BlackLiterature #NationalBookAward #BlackExcellence #AfricanAmericanHistory #TheEnglandManor
#OnThisDayInBlackHistory #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan #BlackLiterature #NationalBookAward #BlackExcellence #AfricanAmericanHistory #TheEnglandManor
📚 On This Day in Black History – January 27, 1953 📚
On this day in 1953, Ralph Ellison made history by becoming the first African American to win the National Book Award for fiction for his groundbreaking novel, Invisible Man.
#OnThisDayInBlackHistory #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan
On this day in 1953, Ralph Ellison made history by becoming the first African American to win the National Book Award for fiction for his groundbreaking novel, Invisible Man.
#OnThisDayInBlackHistory #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan
January 27, 2026 at 4:03 PM
📚 On This Day in Black History – January 27, 1953 📚
On this day in 1953, Ralph Ellison made history by becoming the first African American to win the National Book Award for fiction for his groundbreaking novel, Invisible Man.
#OnThisDayInBlackHistory #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan
On this day in 1953, Ralph Ellison made history by becoming the first African American to win the National Book Award for fiction for his groundbreaking novel, Invisible Man.
#OnThisDayInBlackHistory #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan
Ellison’s novel exposed the psychological cost of invisibility and forced readers to confront how power, identity, and illusion shape American life.
Some stories don’t age—they deepen. Truth revealed on the page has a way of finding us again. INerasable.
#OnThisDay #RalphEllison
Some stories don’t age—they deepen. Truth revealed on the page has a way of finding us again. INerasable.
#OnThisDay #RalphEllison
January 27, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Ellison’s novel exposed the psychological cost of invisibility and forced readers to confront how power, identity, and illusion shape American life.
Some stories don’t age—they deepen. Truth revealed on the page has a way of finding us again. INerasable.
#OnThisDay #RalphEllison
Some stories don’t age—they deepen. Truth revealed on the page has a way of finding us again. INerasable.
#OnThisDay #RalphEllison
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― #RalphEllison, #InvisibleMan
#BannedBooks
― #RalphEllison, #InvisibleMan
#BannedBooks
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― #RalphEllison, #InvisibleMan
#BannedBooks
― #RalphEllison, #InvisibleMan
#BannedBooks
“Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”
~ Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
#invisableman #RalphEllison #whenyouhaveit #Booksky
~ Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
#invisableman #RalphEllison #whenyouhaveit #Booksky
October 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”
~ Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
#invisableman #RalphEllison #whenyouhaveit #Booksky
~ Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
#invisableman #RalphEllison #whenyouhaveit #Booksky
looking for further reading on Invisible Man -- Mark Greif (who is always good) suggests there was more of an international dimension and a different version of communism in an earlier version of the book which included 'Leroy's Journal' www.lrb.co.uk/.../mark-gre... #RalphEllison #MarkGreif
www.lrb.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
looking for further reading on Invisible Man -- Mark Greif (who is always good) suggests there was more of an international dimension and a different version of communism in an earlier version of the book which included 'Leroy's Journal' www.lrb.co.uk/.../mark-gre... #RalphEllison #MarkGreif
In this radiant tomb, he builds identity from silence and resistance, crafting words that the world refused to hear. This is not isolation. This is illumination. The invisible man isn’t hiding—he’s charging the darkness with truth.
#InvisibleMan #RalphEllison #LiteraryArt #ExistentialArt
#InvisibleMan #RalphEllison #LiteraryArt #ExistentialArt
August 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In this radiant tomb, he builds identity from silence and resistance, crafting words that the world refused to hear. This is not isolation. This is illumination. The invisible man isn’t hiding—he’s charging the darkness with truth.
#InvisibleMan #RalphEllison #LiteraryArt #ExistentialArt
#InvisibleMan #RalphEllison #LiteraryArt #ExistentialArt