1、 1914:born on March 1 in Oklahoma City 1933-36:wins scholarship&attends Alabamas Tuskegee Institute 1936:moves to New York 1938:hired by Federal Writers Project to research oral history 1942:becomes managing editor of Negro Quarterly 1945:awarded Rosenwald Fellowship to write novel 1952:Invisible Ma
2、n 1958-61:teaches Russian&American literature at Bards College 1964:Shadow and Act 1986:Going to theTerritory 1994:at the age of 80,dies of pancreatic cancer on April 16 One day I wrote,I am an invisible man.I did not know what those words represented at the start,and I had no thought about what gav
3、e me the idea.Invisible Man(1952)Shadow and Act(1964)Going to the Territory(1986)Flying Home:And Other Stories is published(after being discovered in his home)（1996）National Book Award for Fiction Best Novel winner(1953):The Invisible Man published in1952 The book won the National Book Award,a high
4、and rare honor for a first novel.changed the way white Americans thought about black Americans changed the way black Americans thought about themselves I am an invisible man I am a man of substance,flesh and bone,fiber and liquids and I might even be said to possess a mind.I am invisible,understand,
5、simply because people refuse to see meWhen they approach me they see only my surroundings,themselves,or figments of their imagination indeed,everything and anything except me.”many American writers were influenced by Ellison Gettysburg Address Ecclesiates Joseph Conrad Fyodor Dostoevski William Faul
6、kner Ben Franklin Henry James Herman Melville the name of the first chapter of Invisible Man the name adopted by subsequent anthologies to differentiate the story from the novel of the same name.a story about a young African American man who is struggling to prove himself in a racial,prejudice world.
