Mar 11 - 2023
Biographies and MemoirsHalf in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay
By Shanna Greene Benjamin
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Nellie Y. McKay (1930–2006) was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. The author of several books, McKay is best known for coediting the canon-making Norton Anthology of African American Literaturewith Henry Louis Gates Jr., which helped secure a place for the scholarly study of Black writing that had been ignored by white academia.