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Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial book is…

— Cornel West

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara

“It’s not very often that a writer’s words can punch through the paper and throttle the lifeblood out of you, but Tony’s words manage…

— Tony O'Neill

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths.…

— Henry Louis Gates

“He who combines the useful and the pleasing wins out by both instructing and delighting the reader. That is the sort of book that…

— Horace

'Hamilton' is revolutionary in terms of writing.

— Chance The Rapper

“[José] Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western world [..] He was the equal of Philip…

— Harold Bloom

“The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.”

— Anonymous

Again and again, Primo Levi's work is described as indispensable, essential, necessary. None of those terms overstate the case, but they do prepare readers…

— Howard Jacobson

Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the same universe…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years.

— Keith Carradine