influenced birth_place nationality birth_date genre article_title name occupation
suzan-lori parks washington , dc , u.s. united states 23 january 1933 african-american literature mary mchenry
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mary mchenry

mary williamson mchenry -lrb- born january 23 , 1933 -rrb- is `` credited with bringing african-american literature to mount holyoke college , '' where she is emeritus professor of english .
mchenry also introduced her then student , the pulitzer prize-winning playwright suzan-lori parks , to five colleges faculty member james baldwin during the 1980s .
parks would later credit mchenry with her success .
