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Photo source: Ralph Ellison Collection, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs division
She was half of one of twentieth-century New York City’s literary power couples. She was dear friend to many acclaimed writers, visual artists, and critics. She was the woman behind the novel Invisible Man. And yet her own story remains just outside the spotlight.
Invisible Woman: Fanny Ellison and the Staging of a Writers Life is a biography-in-progress that documents the life of Fanny Ellison before, during, and after the 50 years she was married to and worked alongside novelist Ralph Ellison.
Winner of the 2024 Hazel Rowley Prize honoring the best book proposal by a first-time biographer, from Biographers International Organization
Tracy Floreani : Author, editor, culture worker, bibliophile 