Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
http://www.fcps.edu/westspringfieldhs/projects/im98/im98.htm
Three English classes at West Springfield High School in Virginia have developed three excellent Web pages on Ralph Ellison and his novel, Invisible Man, as class projects. Each page includes chapter summaries of Invisible Man with analyses of characters, symbols, motifs and quotations, "ancillary topics such as jazz and social studies relevant to the period, biographical information on Ellison," and several pertinent links. This site would be a great model for a similar class project.
Overall Rating: 4

Ralph Ellison Page
http://accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/ellisonr.htm
From the African American Literature page of the San Antonio College Lit Web comes this collection of links pertaining to Ralph Ellison. After a list of Ellison's works, the reader is invited to visit links that present "chapter summaries, reviews ... and critical essays." Some of the essays are "highly critical of Ellison's work" and may be of interest to writers wishing to "keep abreast of critical viewpoints on Invisible Man or Ralph Ellison prior to writing."
Overall Rating: 2

DISSENT: Decoding Ralph Ellison
http://www.igc.org/dissent/archive/summer97/early.html
Often overlooked or omitted in any biographical study of Ralph Ellison is a discussion of the myth "that he published only one book, and that his entire authority as a writer and intellectual rests on this one work." Gerald Early, writing in Dissent magazine in 1997, does a fine job of exploding this myth by showing the "historical importance" of Ellison's Flying Home and Other Stories, a collection of most of his pre-Invisible Man fiction, and two collections of essays: Shadow and Act and Going to the Territory, which "set forth his views as a literary critic and public intellectual." Also included is a fascinating discussion about Ellison's relationship with his good friend Richard Wright and many other facts not usually found in other studies of Ellison.
Overall Rating: 3