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John F. Callahan, a humanities professor at Lewis and Clark College, was friends with Ellison during his lifetime. Ellison’s wife named him literary executor after the author’s death...
Callahan, along with Adam F. Bradley, an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado-Boulder, spent fourteen years sorting through computer disks and boxes of notes that Ellison compiled over four decades...
Bradley, who was 19 when he began working on the project, described his "shock" at seeing typos and "rough sentences that needed honing" while sifting through Ellison’s notes. Despite the notes’ roughness, the editors said it was clear that Ellison was experimenting with the possibilities and variations of language...
This experimentation is reflected in the novel, and Callahan hopes that the book will "fill out the picture" of Ellison...
...editors said that the novel, despite and because of it’s unfinished state, can function as a window into the literary master’s mind. Callahan said he hopes the work will humanize Ellison. Instead of being seen as a self-critical perfectionist, it is Callahan’s wish that Ellison be seen as a good-humored man who loved dogs and children and had a "defiant imagination...