American novelist, literary critic, scholar, and writer (1914-1994) best known for his novel Invisible Man. Souvenir typescript, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, no date, signed at the conclusion in blue ballpoint. An excerpt from Twentieth-Century Fiction. In part: "The artist is no freer than the society in which he lives, and in the United States the writers who stereotype or ignore the Negro and other minorities in the final analysis stereotype and distort their own humanity. Mark Twain knew that in his America humanity masked its face with blackness." In fine condition.
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