Claude McKay's poetry and his life display the presence of conflicting forces: his sense of identity as a black man and his desire to write out of a traditional literary heritage. While his poem "If We Must Die" has been heralded as a primary motivator...

Once, on being asked his nationality, Claude McKay flippantly answered that he preferred to think of himself as an "internationalist." Though lightly given, the answer was not far off the mark. Born a British subject in Jamaica, McKay immigrated to the...

Claude McKay (1890-1948), Jamaican-born poet and novelist, is often called "the first voice of the Harlem renaissance." His verse and fiction are best known for protesting the social evils that plagued blacks. Claude McKay was born in Jamaica, British...

While scholar Alain Locke and novelist James Weldon Johnson attempted to make the Harlem Renaissance palatable to white audiences, Claude McKay rose to prominence as the most militant voice in the African-American literary movement. The Jamaican-born...

Home to Harlem by Claude McKay Bom in Jamaica in 1890, Claude McKay immigrated to America at the age of twentytwo to study scientific farming at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He transferred to Kansas State College before he left school altogether in...

Born September 15, 1890 Sunny Ville, Jamaica Died May 22, 1948 Chicago, Illinois Jamaican-born American poet, journalist, essayist, and novelist Claude McKay....

Claude McKay (September 15, 1889[1] – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican writer and communist. He was part of the Harlem Renaissance and wrote three novels: Home to Harlem (1928), a best-seller which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature, Banjo (1929),...

CLAUDE McKAY Rebel Sojourner In the Harlem Renaissance A Biography By Wayne F. Cooper Louisiana State University Press. 441 pp. $29.95 IF THE Harlem Renaissance was begun as a well-financed race-relations stratagem by an interracial elite, it was soon in deep trouble with the...

There have been a good number of conversions of twentieth-century intellectuals to Catholicism, but few are as intriguing as the conversion of the poet, novelist, and critic Claude McKay. McKay. Along with Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen, McKay is considered one of the...

Festus Claudius McKay, most commonly known as Claude McKay, was born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica. He was the youngest of eleven children. By the time he immigrated to the United States he had established himself as a poet. He published two volumes of dialect verse, "Songs of Jamaica" and "Constab Ballads."