Mark’s Reviews > Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray > Status Update

"...except Wright, and he could never bring himself to conceive a character as complicated as himself. I guess he was too profoundly dissatisfied with his life, his past life, to look too long in the mirror; and no doubt he longed for something, some way of life so drastically different that it would have few points of contact with what he knew or the people he knew it with."
Ellison to Murray, Feb 4, 1952