"... a stunning block-buster of a book that will ... keep everybody reading right through to its explosive end." ~Langston Hughes
"The most impressive work of fiction by an American Negro which I have ever read... Mr. Ellison is a finished novelist who uses words with great skill, who writes with poetic intensity and immense narrative drive... Invisible Man is tough, brutal and sensational... it blazes with authentic talent." ~Orville Prescott
"Ellison has talent and so far he has managed to stay away from being first a Negro, he is still first a writer. I think he will go far." ~William Faulkner
"A resolutely honest, tormented, profoundly American book... Invisible Man belongs on the shelf with the classical efforts man has made to chart the river Lethe from its mouth to its sources." ~Wright Morris
"...a searing and exalted record of a Negro's journey through contemporary America in search of success, companionship, and finally, himself." ~Irving Howe
