LC control no. | n 83176065 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PS3539.O478 |
Personal name heading | McKay, Nellie Y. |
Variant(s) | Reynolds, Nellie Yvonne |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 19300512 |
Death date | 20060122 |
Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
Place of death | Fitchburg (Wis.) |
Affiliation | Harvard University University of Wisconsin Modern Language Association of America MELUS Europe |
Profession or occupation | Critics College teachers Book editors |
Found in | 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) 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) 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) |