from Columbia University in 1960, and continued further graduate work at George Washington University from 1961 to 1964. in English literature from Mount Holyoke College in 1954, her M.A. She graduated from Oakwood School in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1950, received her B.A. McHenry was born Mary Elizabeth Williamson Murphy in Washington, D.C., to Alphonso Williamson (who worked with the Library of Congress) and Elizabeth Bennett Williamson (a teacher). Parks would later credit McHenry with her success. McHenry also introduced her then student, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, to Five Colleges faculty member James Baldwin during the 1980s. Mary Williamson McHenry (Janu– March 1, 2021) was "credited with bringing African-American literature to Mount Holyoke College," where she was Emeritus Professor of English.
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