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Fanny Ellison's work on Invisible
Man...
Like college
students today, when I went off to college, the assigned reading for
freshmen week was Ralph Ellison’s Invisible
Man.
It was a provocative book that sparked a great deal of discussion. This
was in Chicago in 1967, not long before the country faced so many
turbulent years ahead. One thing I didn’t know at the time was that
Ellison’s wife, Fanny, typed the manuscript for Invisible Man,
providing her husband with valuable editorial assistance. Ellison had
written the book in longhand, and he always acknowledged his wife’s
role. The two met through poet Langston Hughes, after Fanny told Hughes
she wanted to meet a man who was interested in books.
Linda, Sweet Life notes
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