McKay, Nellie Y.
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Name (Latin)
McKay, Nellie Y.
Other forms of name
Reynolds, Nellie Yvonne
Date of birth
1943-05-12
Date of death
2006-01-22
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Book editors
College teachers
Critics
Gender
female
MARC
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Sources of Information
- African American National Biography, accessed March 03, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(McKay, Nellie Y.; Nellie Yvonne Reynolds; literary scholar, educator, book editor, publisher, documentary/historical editor; born 12 May 1930 in New York, New York, United States; BA in English from Queens College (1969); PhD from Harvard University; taught at Simmons College (1973) and University of Wisconsin at Madison (1978); coedited the Norton Anthology of African American Literature; presided over the Mid-West Consortium of Afro-American Studies; was a member of the executive board of the Modern Language Association and a keynote speaker at the founding conference of MELUS Europe (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, later Multi-Ethnic Studies of Europe and America), in Heidelberg, Germany (1998); was inducted into the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (2001); received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from University of Michigan (2002); Teacher of the Year for the University of Wisconsin system (1988); died 22 January 2006 in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, United States)
- New York times WWW site, Jan. 30, 2006(in obituary published Jan. 28: Nellie Y. McKay; b. Nellie Yvonne Reynolds, Queens; d. last Sunday [Jan. 22, 2006], Fitchburg, Wis.; believed to have been in her mid-70s; distinguished scholar and critic who helped secure a place for African American women in the modern literary canon)
- Her Jean Toomer, artist, c1984:CIP t.p. (Nellie Y. McKay)
- Approaches to teaching the novels of Toni Morrison, 1997:CIP t.p. (Nellie Y. McKay) CIP data sheet (b. May 12, 1943)
Wikipedia description:
Nellie Yvonne McKay (May 12, 1930 – January 22, 2006) was an American academic and author who was the Evjue-Bascom Professor of American and African-American Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she also taught in English and women's studies, and is best known as the co-editor (with Henry Louis Gates Jr.) of the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature.
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