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Claude McKay

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Born: September 14 1889

Died: 2121 05 19491949

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Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay was a Jamaican-American writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote four novels: Home to Harlem, a best-seller that won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature, Banjo, Banana Bottom, and in 1941 a manuscript called Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem that has not yet been published. McKay also authored collections of poetry, a collection of short stories, Gingertown, two autobiographical books, A Long Way from Home and My Green Hills of Jamaica , and a non-fiction, socio-historical treatise entitled Harlem: Negro Metropolis. His 1922 poetry collection, Harlem Shadows, was among the first books published during the Harlem Renaissance. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, in 1953.

Claude McKay

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Born: September 14 1889

Died: 2121 05 19491949

Website: Go to Website

Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay was a Jamaican-American writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote four novels: Home to Harlem, a best-seller that won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature, Banjo, Banana Bottom, and in 1941 a manuscript called Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem that has not yet been published. McKay also authored collections of poetry, a collection of short stories, Gingertown, two autobiographical books, A Long Way from Home and My Green Hills of Jamaica , and a non-fiction, socio-historical treatise entitled Harlem: Negro Metropolis. His 1922 poetry collection, Harlem Shadows, was among the first books published during the Harlem Renaissance. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, in 1953.

Books from Claude McKay

Home to Harlem

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Romance in Marseille

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Banjo

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Banana Bottom

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Amiable with Big Teeth

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices on Resistance, Reform, and Renewal an African American Anthology

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Graphic Classics, Volume 22: African-American Classics

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Rotten English: A Literary Anthology

If We Must Die

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Harlem Shadows: Poems

3.7/5 ( ratings)

A Long Way From Home

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s: Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry

4.2/5 ( ratings)

A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay's Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion

3.3/5 ( ratings)

American Dream: Texts & Contexts

Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln

Selected Poems

Complete Poems

Short Poetry Collection 034

Ritorno ad Harlem

Brotherhood: Poems from the Harlem Renaissance