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[ACS] Card - "Greetings and best wishes" n.d.
[TDS] "from Shadow and Act" - review for Saturday Review May 17, 1958
Photocopy of Ellison's review of There is a Tree More Ancient than Eden by Leon Forrest with [TLS] note from Selma Shapiro, Random House to "Dear Barbara". Note concerns the photocopy. February 15, 1973
[Ralph Ellison signing autographs] - B/W Photograph, 8" x 10" n.d.
Short Stories
"Backwacking: a Plea to the Senator", Massachusetts Review, v.18:3 Autumn 1977
"Night-Talk", Quarterly Review of Literature, v.16 1972
"A Song of Innocence", The Iowa Review, v.1:2 Spring 1970
"Juneteenth", Quarterly Review of Literature, v.13:3-4 1965
"Harlem is Nowhere", Harpers magazine, v.229:1371 August 1964
"It Always Breaks Out", Partisan Review, v.30:1 Spring 1963
"The Roof, the Steeple and the People", Quarterly Review of Literature, v.10:3 1959-1960
"Prologue to Invisible Man", Partisan Review, v.19 January - February 1952
"Battle Royal", '48: The Magazine of the Year, v.2:1 January 1948
"King of the Bingo Game", Tomorrow, v.4:3 November 1944
"Mr. Toussaint", Negro Story, v.1:3 October - November 1944
Scope and Content Note
"Mister Toussan", Negro Story, v. 1:1 July - August 1944
Scope and Content Note
"Flying Home", Cross Section: A Collection of New American Writing 1944
"Mister Toussan", New Masses, v.23 November 4, 1941
"They found Terror in Harlem", Negro Digest, v.1:1 July 1940
"The Birthmark", New Masses, v.36:2 July 2, 1940
"Slick Gonna Learn", Direction, v.2:5 September 1939
Essays - Music & Art
"The Golden Age Time Past", Esquire, v.50 January 1959
"As the Spirit Moves Mahalia", The Saturday Review of Literature, v.41 September 27, 1958
"Resourceful Human" & "Remembering Jimmy", The Saturday Review of Literature, v.41 July 12, 1958
"The Charlie Christian Story", The Saturday Review of Literature v.41 May 17, 1958
"The Swing to Stereo", The Saturday Review of Literature, v.41 April 26, 1958
"Introduction to Flamenco", The Saturday Review of Literature, v.37 December 11, 1954
Essays & Speeches on Politics & Culture
"What America Would be Without Blacks", Time, v. 95 April 6, 1970
"Harlem's America", New Leader, v.49 September 26, 1966
"Tell it Like it is, Baby", Nation, v.20 September 20, 1965
"The Way It Is", New Masses, v.44 October 20, 1942
"A Congress Jim Crow Didn't Attend", New Masses, v.35 May 14, 1940
"Camp Lost Colony", New Masses, v.34 February 6, 1940
"Judge Lynch in New York", New Masses, v.33 August 15, 1939
Essays & Reviews
"The Little Man at Chehaw Station: The American Artist and His Audience", The American Scholar, v.47 Winter 1977-78
"On Initiation Rites and Power: Ralph Ellison Speaks at West Point", Contemporary Literature, v.15:2 Spring 1974
"The Novel as a Function of American Democracy", Wilson Library Bulletin, v.41:10 June 1967
"Hidden Name and Complex Fate", Authors Guild Bulletin, February 1965
"On Becoming a Writer", Commentary, v.38:4 October 1964
"The Blues", New York Review of Books, v.1:12 February 6, 1964
"A Rejoinder", The New Leader, v.47 February 3, 1964
"The World and the Jug", The New Leader, v.46 December 9, 1963
"Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke", Partisan Review, v.25 Spring 1958
"Stepchild Fantasy", The Saturday Review of Literature, v.29:23 June 9, 1946
"Richard Wright's Blues", Antioch Review, v.5:2 June 1945
"Native Land", New Masses, v.42 June 2, 1942
"Transition", Negro Quarterly, v.1:1 Spring 1942
"The Great Migration", New Masses, v.51 December 2, 1941
"Recent Negro Fiction", New Masses, v.40 August 5, 1941
"Richard Wright and Recent Negro Fiction", Direction, v.4:5 1941
"Negro Prize Fighter", New Masses, v.37 December 17, 1940
"Argosy Across the USA", New Masses, v.37 November 26, 1940
"Big White Fog", New Masses, v.37 November 12, 1940
"Southern Folklore", New Masses, v.37 October 29, 1940
"Romance in the Slave Era", New Masses, v.35 May 29, 1940
"Hunters and Pioneers", New Masses, v.34 March 19, 1940
"TAC Negro Show" , New Masses, v.34 February 27, 1940
"The Good Life", New Masses, v.34 February 20, 1940
"Javanese Folklore", New Masses, v.34 December 26, 1939
"Ruling-class Southerner", New Masses, v.30 December 5, 1939
"Practical Mystic", New Masses, v.28 August 16, 1938
"The Essential Ellison" Interview by Ishmael Reed, Quincy Troupe, and Steve Cannon, Y'Bird , 1:1 1978
"Profiles (Ralph Ellison): Going to the Territory" Interview by Jervis Anderson, The New Yorker, v.52:40 November 22, 1976
"An Interview with Ralph Ellison: Visible Man" Interview by Howard Sage, Pulp, v.2:2 Summer 1976
Interview with Ralph Ellison by John Graham, The Writer's Voice; Conversations with Contemporary Writers 1973
"Indivisible Man" Interview by James A. McPherson, Atlantic Monthly, v.206:6 December 1970
"A Very Stern Discipline: An Interview with Ralph Ellison" Interview by James Thompson, Lennox Raphael, and Steve Cannon, Harper's, v.234:1402 March 1967
"An American Novelist Who Sometimes Teaches", New York Times Magazine November 20, 1966
"An Interview with Ralph Ellison" Interview by Allen Geller, The Tamarack Review, v.32 1964
"That Same Pain, That Same Pleasure: An Interview" Interview by Richard G. Stern, December, No.3 Winter 1961
"The Art of Fiction" An Interview by Alfred Chester and Vilma Howard, Paris Review, No.8 1955
"What's Wrong with the American Novel?", American Scholar, v.24:4 Autumn 1955
Scope and Content Note
"A Bibliography of Ralph Ellison's Published Works" by Bernard Benoit & Michael Fabre, Studies in Black Literature, v.2:3 Autumn 1971
Addenda to "A Ralph Waldo Ellison Bibliography 1914-1968" by Carol Polsgrove, American Book Collector, v.20:3 November - December 1969
"A Ralph Waldo Ellison Bibliography 1914-1967" by R.S. Lillard, American Book Collector, v.19:3 November 1968
Reprint of "Aspiring We Should Go" by Howard Levant, Journal of the Mid-Continent American Studies Association, v.4:2 Fall 1963