Question: Who published the novel for which American novelist Ralph Waldo Ellison is best known?
Context: Butcher's Crossing is a western novel by John Williams, originally published in 1960.  The story follows William Andrews, a young Harvard student who leaves his life behind to explore the American West.  The book begins and ends in the fictional frontier town of Butcher's Crossing, Kansas, in the early 1870s, where Andrews joins a buffalo-hunting expedition.  He and the people he meets along the way must confront and survive the brutal realities of nature in their attempts to get buffalo hides to sell.  Along the way, Andrews contemplates his purpose in life with respect to nature, specifically through the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Adam Bradley (born 1974) is an American literary critic, professor, and a writer on popular culture.  He is the author or editor of five books.  Bradley has written extensively on hip-hop lyrics as well as on the literature and legacy of the American novelist Ralph Ellison.  His commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and in numerous other publications.  He is an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he directs the Laboratory for Race & Popular Culture (RAP Lab). Mary Moody Emerson (August 23, 1774 - May 1, 1863) was known not only as her nephew Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “earliest and best teacher,” but also as a “spirited and original genius in her own right” (Richardson on back cover of "Origins").  Ralph Waldo Emerson considered her presence in his life a “blessing which nothing else in education could supply” (Emerson "Lectures" 432); and her vast body of writing—her thousands of letters and journal entries spanning more than fifty years—“became one of Emerson’s most important books” (Richardson 25).  Her surviving documents reveal the voice of a “woman who […] had something to say to her contemporaries and who can continue to speak to ours” about “the great truths that were the object of her life’s pilgrimage” (Cole "Origins" xl, xxvii). Hyatt Howe Waggoner (born Pleasant Valley, New York, November 19, 1913; died October 13, 1988, in Hanover, New Hampshire) was an English professor.  He is today best known for his work on Nathaniel Hawthorne, especially "Hawthorne's Selected Tales and Sketches" (1950), "Hawthorne: A Critical Study" (1956) and "The Presence of Hawthorne" (1979), and in 1978 played a pivotal role in the authentication of the novelist's "lost notebook".  In the year of Waggoner's death, he was honoured with the House of Seven Gables Hawthorne Award.  He did not, however, confine his output to one author: "I've moved around the field", he declared, "at the risk of being superficial."  Among the other literary figures who incurred his attention were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and William Faulkner. Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison about an African American man whose color renders him invisible, published by Random House in 1952.  It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity. Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar.  Ellison is best known for his novel "Invisible Man", which won the National Book Award in 1953.  He also wrote "Shadow and Act" (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and "Going to the Territory" (1986).  For "The New York Times", the best of these essays in addition to the novel put him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus."  A posthumous novel, "Juneteenth", was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left after his death. Zelia N. Breaux (February 6, 1880 – October 31, 1956) was an American music instructor and musician who played the trumpet, violin and piano.  She organized the first music department at Oklahoma's Langston University and the school's first orchestra.  As the Supervisor of Music for the segregated African American schools in Oklahoma City, Breaux organized bands, choral groups and orchestras, establishing a music teacher in each school in the district.  She had a wide influence on many musicians including Charlie Christian and Jimmy Rushing, as well as novelist Ralph Ellison.  Breaux was the first woman president of the Oklahoma Association of Negro Teachers and was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma YWCA Hall of Fame, Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame. Ronald A. Bosco (born in Farmingdale, New York) is the Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is currently President of the Association for Documentary Editing and General Editor of "The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson" published by Harvard University Press.  Bosco is one of the country’s leading experts on the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and on American Puritan homiletics and poetics. Louisa May Alcott ( ; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel "Little Women" (1868) and its sequels "Little Men" (1871) and "Jo's Boys" (1886).  Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she also grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Walking, or sometimes referred to as "The Wild", is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851.  It was written between 1851 and 1860, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals.  Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures.  "Walking" was first published as an essay in the "Atlantic Monthly" after his death in 1862.  He considered it one of his seminal works, so much so, that he once wrote of the lecture, "I regard this as a sort of introduction to all that I may write hereafter."  Walking is a Transcendental essay in which Thoreau talks about the importance of nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature, physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending more and more time entrenched by society.  For Thoreau walking is a self-reflective spiritual act that occurs only when you are away from society, that allows you to learn about who you are, and find other aspects of yourself that have been chipped away by society.  "Walking" is an important canon in the transcendental movement that would lay the foundation for his best known work, "Walden".  Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature", and George Perkins Marsh's "Man and Nature", it has become one of the most important essays in the environmental movement.
Answer: Random House