1930-2019
Bill McFeely (elected October 1983) died December 11, 2019. After helping establish the Department of African American Studies at Yale, McFeely taught at Mount Holyoke College and the University of Georgia. His book Grant: A Biography won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1982; his biography Frederick Douglass won the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize in 1991.
Sleepy Hollow, NY
United States
Elected to AAS
October 1983
Public Programs
October 18, 2007