Author · Jamaica, United States
Claude McKay
Died in 1948
Claude McKay was born on 15 September 1889 or 1890 in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, into a family of farmers. He left in 1912 to study agronomy in the United States, at Tuskegee and then in Kansas, gave it up for Harlem and became one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Invited to Russia in 1922, he then lived eleven years in Europe and North Africa, returned to Harlem in 1934 and joined the Catholic Church late in life. He died in Chicago on 22 May 1948.
In the catalogue 2
- PoetrySongs of JamaicaClaude McKay · 1912LiteraturePublic domain
- NovelHome to HarlemClaude McKay · 1928LiteraturePublic domain