McKay, Nellie Y

LC control no.	n 83176065
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3539.O478
Personal name heading	McKay, Nellie Y. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
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)