SOURCE: "Ralph Ellison and the Example of Richard Wright," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring, 1978, pp. 145-53.
In the following essay, Skerrett traces the influence of Richard Wright's works on the style and themes of Ellison's earliest short stories.
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