Ralph Ellison's
Invisible Man (1952) is one of the great works of American literature. In 1999, five years after Mr. Ellison died, at age 80, his novel
Juneteenth
was released. He had worked on the novel for decades, yet it remained
unfinished at his death. His literary executor, John F. Callahan, a
professor at Lewis & Clark College, assembled the book from some
two thousand pages of manuscript and notes Mr. Ellison had written.
https://www.amazon.com/Juneteenth-Novel-Ralph-Ellison/dp/0394464575/ref
In 2010, a much longer version of the novel--
Three Days Before the Shooting--was
published. The book, made up of more than one thousand of the two
thousand pages of material Mr. Ellison had left behind, was edited by
Mr. Callahan, and writer/critic Adam Bradley, professor at the
University of Colorado, Boulder.
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Days-Before-Shooting/dp/0375759549/ref
Today,
June 19th, marks the observance of the day known as Juneteenth--June
19, 1865, two months after the conclusion of the Civil War--when the end of slavery in Texas was officially carried out. The holiday
commemorates not only the end of slavery in Texas, but, more broadly,
its abolishment in the United States as a whole.
As noted on Wikipedia: "Texas was the most remote of the slave states,
and the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, was not enforced
there until after the Confederacy collapsed." Says Wikipedia: "On June 18, Union Army General Gordon Granger
arrived at Galveston Island with 2,000 federal troops to occupy Texas on
behalf of the federal government. The following day, standing on the
balcony of Galveston's Ashton Villa, Granger read aloud the contents of
'General Order No. 3', announcing the total emancipation of those held
as slaves."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
Here
is a story from CNN.com, today, about observances of Juneteenth.
Pennsylvania, today, became the latest state to officially recognize the
holiday; four states have yet to do so.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/us/juneteenth-state-holidays-trnd/index.html
The
list price of the 2019 Revised Edition of my book
(softcover version) is $24.95. As of a couple of days ago, the book could be purchased at my website for
$27.25 (at the slightly discounted price of $24.00, plus $3.25 for Media Mail Shipping). 
