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Claude McKay

1890 - 1948

Festus Claudius McKay (September 15, 1890 – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet, and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

Born in Jamaica, McKay first traveled 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 political involvement. He moved to New York City in 1914 and in 1919 wrote "If We Must Die", one of his best known works, a widely reprinted sonnet responding to the wave of white-on-black race riots and lynchings following the conclusion of the First World War.

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  • Cover of: A Long Way from Home (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas)

    First published in 1937 20 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition longwayfromhome00mcka Cover of edition longwayfromhomem00mcka
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  • Cover of: Harlem shadows: poems

    First published in 1922 19 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition harlemshadows00mcka Cover of edition harlemshadowspoe00mckauoft
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  • Cover of: Home to Harlem

    First published in 1928 12 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition hometoharlem0000mcka
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  • Cover of: Selected poems

    First published in 1953 10 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition selectedpoems0000mcka_n7r6
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  • Cover of: Banana Bottom (The Black Classic Series from X Press)

    First published in 1933 10 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition bananabottom0000mcka_z2a6
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  • Cover of: Songs of Jamaica.

    First published in 1912 8 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Banjo: a story without a plot.

    First published in 1929 8 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition banjo0000mcka
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  • Cover of: Spring in New Hampshire and other poems

    First published in 1920 7 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The American Experience

    First published in 1999 5 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The United States in Literature

    First published in 1985 5 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition unitedstatesinli0007edunse Cover of edition unitedstatesinli1985mill
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  • Cover of: Selected Poems

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  • Cover of: Romance in Marseille

    First published in 1922 4 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The passion of Claude McKay: selected poetry and prose, 1912-1948.

    First published in 1973 4 editions in 2 languages
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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The American Experience

    First published in 2003 4 editions in 1 language — 4 previewable Cover of edition prenticehalllite0000unse_i1u3 Cover of edition prenticehalllite00na Cover of edition americanexperien00kate
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  • Cover of: Complete poems

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  • Cover of: The dialect poetry of Claude McKay : two volumes in one

    First published in 1953 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Gingertown.

    First published in 1932 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall: Literature: The American Experience

    First published in 1996 3 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition prenticehalllite11koel Cover of edition prenticehalllite00koel_0
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  • Cover of: Harlem Glory: A Fragment Of Aframerican Life

    First published in 1988 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Harlem: Negro metropolis

    First published in 1940 2 editions in 1 language
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Subjects
Fiction, African Americans, History, Poetry, Classic Literature, Union, hanging, American literature, Confederacy, United States Civil War, short story, Drama, American Civil War, American poetry, Jamaican Americans, Juvenile audience, Literature, Prisoners, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Satanism, Short Stories, civil war, clergy, freedom
Places
Alabama, Jamaica, Owl Creek Bridge, United States, England, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Mallard residence, Massachusetts, Milford meeting house, Andover, Barbados, China, Eastern Europe, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Salem, Salem (Mass.), Soviet Union, Missouri, kingdom by the sea, Florida, Fountain of Youth, France, Marseille (France), N.Y.) Harlem (New York, New England
People
Peyton Farquhar, Brently Mallard, Devil, Elizabeth, Josephine, Louise Mallard, Mr. Hooper, Richards, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Bridget Bishop, Elizabeth Proctor, Ethelred, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Giles Corey, God, John Hale, John Hathorne, John Proctor, Madeline Usher, Martha Corey
Time
19th century, 1861-1865, American Civil War, 1861-65, 20th century, Civil War, 1861-1865, 1692, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1600s, Civil War, December, To 1964, carnival

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