美国著名黑人作家拉尔夫·埃里森是小说《看不见的人》的作者。他于1994年4月16日在纽约去世,享年80岁。埃里森于1914年3月1日出生在俄克拉荷马城,他的父亲是一个建筑工人,在他三岁时不幸去世。他的母亲为了维持生计、抚养儿子,在白人家当佣人。正是从母亲带回家来的那些别人丢掉的旧唱片和旧杂志里,埃里森开始对书籍和爵士乐产生了兴趣。在埃里森后半生中,他之所以拒绝成为一名文坛斗士,很 Ralph Ellison, a famous American black writer, is the author of Invisible Man in the novel. He died in New York on April 16, 1994, at the age of 80. Ellison was born on March 1, 1914 in Oklahoma City. His father, a builder, died of unfortunate death at the age of three. His mother worked as a servant in white families in order to earn a living, raise her son. Ellison was interested in books and jazz in the old records and the old magazines that were lost from his mother’s home. In the second half of Ellison, he refused to become a literary fighter, it is