... editor for the party's Daily Worker newspaper in New York City. Ellison wrote his first book in 1939 and named it Slick Gonna Learn. His best-known work, the novel Native Son, which explores how and why a young black man is driven to murder, was published in 1940. Wright left the Communist party in 1944 and later contributed to The God That ... person. After he wrote Invisible Man, many people started to draw comparisons between Ralph Ellison and Edgar Allen Poe. After hearing these comparisons, Ralph Ellison said one of his best quotes ever. "No, I am not a spook like those who haunted...

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