Claude McKay
Jamaican American writer, poet (1889-1948) · Writers · Died at 58
Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
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McKay as pictured in Songs of Jamaica, 1912
McKay's Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) membership card c. 1922-1923
McKay and Max Eastman as delegates to the 4th World Congress of the Communist International, 1923
"Mr. McKay speaking in the Throne Room of the Kremlin," published in The Crisis, December, 1923
McKay with Grigory Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin, 1923
Portrait of McKay in 1920
McKay with Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven in 1920Awards
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1889 to 1948 · aged 58
