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- 1. Ralph Ellison - Biography 1914 - 1994
- 2. Bard, Columbia, Rutgers, Yale, Chicago, and New York UniversityColleges and Universities
- 3. Ellison’s AwardsFellowship to the National American Academy of Arts and Letters in Rome (1955-57)
- 4. Elected Vice-President of the American P.E.N. (1964)
- 5. Vice-President of the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1967)
- 6. Medal of Freedom (1969)
- 7. Chevalier de l’Ordre des Artes de Lettres (1970) Knight in Order of Arts and Letters
- 8. National Medal of Arts in Invisible Man and for his teaching at numerous universities (1985)
- 9. “ I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me