The Randolph County school board originally decided to ban the book, by a 5-2 vote, on September 16, 2013, after receiving a parent's complaint about the book. On September 23, the Board reinstated the book by a 6-1 vote. Read the full story.
The Invisible Man won the 1953 National Book Award. It was also selected as the most distinguished postwar American novel and Ellison as the sixth most influential novelist by a New York Herald Tribune Book Week poll of 200 authors, editors, and critics in 1965.
Want to read Invisible Man for yourself? Check it out from the BSC Library.
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