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- Birth nameWilliam Shield McFeely
- William S. McFeely was born on September 25, 1930 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for American Experience (1988), The Civil War (1990) and Biography (1987). He was married to Mary Drake McFeely. He died on December 11, 2019 in Sleepy Hollow, New York, USA.
- SpouseMary Drake McFeely(1952 - November 14, 2018) (her death, 3 children)
- He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of acclaimed biographies of Ulysses S. Grant and Frederick Douglass. He helped establish one of the US's first African American studies programs, at Yale University, and was a leading authority on the Civil War and Reconstruction.
- After graduating from Amherst College in Massachusetts, he worked at a bank in New York for several years. He then attended Yale, where he received a master's degree and doctorate in American studies. He taught at Mount Holyoke College for 16 years, and was on the faculty of the University of Georgia from 1986 until his retirement in 1997.
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