Bradley, an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado-Boulder, spent fourteen years sorting through computer disks and boxes of notes that Ellison compiled over four decades. Ellison’s wife named him literary executor after the author’s death in 1994.Ĭallahan, along with Adam F. Callahan, a humanities professor at Lewis and Clark College, was friends with Ellison during his lifetime. The editors of Ralph Ellison’s posthumously published second novel, "Three Days Before the Shooting." told an audience at the Harvard Bookstore last night that the celebrated author’s unfinished work is not a masterpiece.Įllison, whose "Invisible Man" won the National Book Award in 1953, spent the next forty years struggling to compose his second novel.
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