Claude McKay biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Claude McKay

Author Name:

Claude McKay

Born As:

Festus Claudius McKay

Other Names:

Born:

15 Sep 1889

Died:

22 May 1948




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Writer and Poet                          
Selected WSorks:

Home to Harlem - 1928 - Harmon Gold Award for Literature
Banjo - 1929
Banana Bottom - 1933

Collection of Short Stories:
Gingertown - 1932

Autobiographical:
A Long Way from Home - 1937 
Harlem: Negro Metropolis - 1940

Poetry:
Harlem Shadows - 1922 was among the first books published during the Harlem Renaissance. 

Selected Poems - 1953 - published posthumously.                          
Mother Hannah Ann Elizabeth Edwards
Father Thomas Francis McKay                          
Jamaican Institute of Arts and Sciences, gold medal, 1912 - for two volumes of poetry, Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads

Harmon Foundation Award for distinguished literary achievement, NAACP -  1929, for Harlem Shadows and Home to Harlem

James Weldon Johnson Literary Guild Award - 1937.                          
Regarded as the "foremost left-wing black intellectual of his age" and workheavily influenced a generation of black authors including James Baldwin and Richard Wright