Juneteenth (novel)
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Juneteenth is the title of African American writer Ralph Ellison's second novel (ISBN 0-394-46457-5), published posthumously as a 368-page condensation of over 2000 pages written by him over a period of forty years. However, it was written without any real organization. Ellison's longtime friend, biographer and critic, John F. Callahan put the novel together, editing it in the way he thought Ellison would want it to be written.
Much of the original manuscript of Juneteenth was destroyed by a fire in 1967, which devastated Ellison. While there had been over 2000 pages written by the time of his death, the novel was never finished by the author himself.
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