The phrase "a literate man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a man who is able to read and write, often implying a certain level of education or knowledge.
Example: "In today's society, being a literate man is essential for navigating the complexities of modern life."
Alternatives: "an educated man" or "a well-read man".
A literate man, he is no doubt horrified by the most recent attack on Afghanistan's Buddhist patrimony.
Caedmon was not a literate man, and when social gatherings turned to song he would make his excuses and leave.
He is a literate man who writes poetry, characteristics so unusual in his environment that a co-worker nicknames him Shakespeare.
JOHN THORNE is the antidote to trendy food writing, a literate man who produces pleasurable, instructive, even profound prose, along with satisfying recipes.
Cairns, a literate man who counted among his friends H.L. Mencken, the sage of Baltimore, read the book and, with some reluctance, banned it.
Mr. Amin said he survived the last six years by working as a cashier in a shop run by a barely literate man.
At its head sat a barely literate man, rude and reckless, a rascally treasure hunter installed by a beleaguered group of purists eager to safeguard their privileges and padlock their ranks.
Hugh, an educated, literate man with a fondness for humor and wordplay, seemed the right person to either delight with — or fob off on – the odd, misshapen creature my strange brain had given birth to.
He turns to his companion, and, with the characteristic flourish with which a highly literate man talks down to the untaught, says, "This young thing wants to know the way north".
He's an extremely literate man, and it also turns out that he has a real interest in economics.
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world.
