Nellie Y. McKay

Professor, Deceased Person

1930 – 2006

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Who was Nellie Y. McKay?

Nellie Yvonne McKay 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 of the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature.

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Born
May 12, 1930
Queens
Also known as
  • Nellie McKay
Ethnicity
  • African American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Harvard University
  • Queens College, City University of New York
Employment
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lived in
  • Madison
  • Queens
Died
Jan 22, 2006
Fitchburg

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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