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The New Republic and Saturday Review and continued to write and study authors from Joyce to Dostoevsky and Hemingway during the Great Depression.

But it was while serving as a cook in the US Merchant Marine during the Second World War that Ellison first started to think of writing a novel – an ambition that came to fruition in 1952 with the publication of Invisible Man.A milestone in American literature, the National Book Award winning tome is as relevant today as it was 70 years ago.

The impassioned novel tells the story of a man invisible “simply because people refuse to see me”. The nameless protagonist describes his experiences growing up in a segregated black community in the South before moving to New York’s Harlem and becoming.

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