The other great novelist of this period is Ralph Ellison, best known for his novel "Invisible Man" (1952), which won the National Book Award in 1953. Even though he did not complete another novel during his lifetime, "Invisible Man" was so influential that it secured his place in literary history. After Ellison's death in 1994, a second novel, "Juneteenth" (1999), was pieced together from the 2,000-plus pages he had written over 40 years. A fuller version of the manuscript was published as "Three Days Before the Shooting" (2010).