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Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ (September 15, 1890 [1] – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, McKay first travelled to the United States to attend college, and encountered W. E. B. Du Bois 's The Souls of Black Folk which stimulated McKay's interest in ...
Claude McKay (born September 15, 1889, Nairne Castle, Jamaica, British West Indies—died May 22, 1948, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) was a Jamaican-born American poet and novelist who was one of the leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance.
Claude McKay's experiences as a Jamaican immigrant in the United States, where he faced racism and discrimination, deeply influenced his writing. His poems often reflected themes of identity, race, and social injustice.
Claude McKay was a Jamaican poet best known for his novels and poems, including "If We Must Die," which contributed to the Harlem Renaissance.
Claude McKay, born Festus Claudius McKay in Sunny Ville, Jamaica in 1889, was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a prominent literary movement of the 1920s. His work ranged from vernacular verse celebrating peasant life in Jamaica to poems that protested racial and economic inequities.
Claude McKay, who was born in Jamaica in 1889, wrote about social and political concerns from his perspective as a Black man in the United States, as well as a variety of subjects ranging from his Jamaican homeland to romantic love.
Claude McKay, born Festus Claudius McKay on September 15, 1889, in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, was a pivotal figure in the Harlem Renaissance and a significant voice in African-American literature.
McKay, Claude (15 September 1890–22 May 1948), poet, novelist, and journalist, was born Festus Claudius McKay in Sunny Ville, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, the son of Thomas Francis McKay and Hannah Ann Elizabeth Edwards, farmers. The youngest of eleven children, McKay was sent at an early age to live with his oldest brother, a schoolteacher, so ...
Perhaps the key legacy of the poet, novelist, and essayist Claude McKay is that he refused to remain still. Living up to his self-description as a “vagabond,” McKay emigrated from his native Jamaica to the United States in 1912.
Although recognized today as one of the genuine pioneers of black literature in this century—the author of “If We Must Die,” Home to Harlem, Banana Bottom, and A Long Way from Home, among other...