John F. Callahan

John F. Callahan is the Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. His writings include a novel, A Man You Could Love. He is the editor of The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison, recently published by Random House, and the Modern Library edition of The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison. A close friend of Ralph Ellison’s, he is literary executor of The Ralph Ellison Estate.

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison’s Two Inviolable Identities

“To become a true American a white American’s identity
must partake of blackness.”

January 16, 2020 By John F. Callahan

The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

John F. Callahan Looks at What Decades of Correspondence Can Reveal

December 6, 2019 By John F. Callahan

John F. Callahan

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison’s Two Inviolable Identities

“To become a true American a white American’s identity must partake of blackness.”

The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

John F. Callahan Looks at What Decades of Correspondence Can Reveal

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“To become a true American a white American’s identity
must partake of blackness.”