Authors on Writing

Three Days Before the Shooting...

Adam Bradley; John Callahan

About the Program

Adam Bradley, associate English professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and John Callahan, literary executor of the estate of Ralph Elison present Ralph Ellison's posthumous second novel, which is derived from over three thousand pages that the author left following his death in 1994.  Ralph Ellison, the author of Invisible Man, never published another novel during his lifetime and worked on his follow-up book for forty years.  Adam Bradley and Jim Callahan discuss Ellison's efforts to complete his second novel at McNally Jackson Books in New York City.

About the Authors

John Callahan

John Callahan is the author of A Man You Could Love: A Novel and The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison.  He is the literary executor of Ralph Ellison's estate and a humanities professor at Lewis and Clark College.

Adam Bradley

Adam Bradley is the author of the soon-to-be published, Ellison in Progress.  He is currently an associate English professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.


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  • Sunday, April 4th at 3:45am (ET)
  • Saturday, April 3rd at 8:45am (ET)
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