{"product_id":"the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-revised-and-updated-9780812968262","title":"The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eShadow and Act\u003c\/i\u003e (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as \"a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,\" and \u003ci\u003eGoing to the Territory\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn F. Callahan\u003c\/b\u003e is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College. He edited Ralph Ellison's \u003ci\u003eJuneteenth\u003c\/i\u003e and co-edited, with Albert Murray, the Modern Library edition of \u003ci\u003eTrading Twelves\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eSaul Bellow\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, has written thirteen novels and numerous novellas, stories, and essays.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50544088744210,"sku":"9780812968262","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_384db13b-9d9f-487c-b1bb-2d48a1984446.jpg?v=1737235266","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-revised-and-updated-9780812968262","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}