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  1. A conversation about African-American literature
    A conversation about African-American literature

    with Jamaica Kincaid, Nellie McKay and Henry Louis Gates on Feb 27, 1997

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Nellie McKay (1930 - 2006) was an African-American academic and author. She 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. She is best known as the co-editor (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) of the “Norton Anthology of African-American Literature”.

McKay was advisory editor for the “African American Review”, and president of the Midwest Consortium of Black Studies. She won numerous awards including The UW-Madison Chancellor?s Distinguished Teaching Award, and she was inducted into the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Among her other books are “Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work”, and “The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women”.

Source- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Y._McKay