framed. Condition: very good. Signature of Ralph Ellison, best known for his novel Invisible Man. Framed with a black and white photograph of Ellision. Circa 1953. Please inquire for more information. Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. Ellison wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). The New York Times dubbed him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus".