Summary: <strong>Claude McKay</strong>, (born September 15, 1889, Nairne Castle, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Jamaica" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jamaica</a>, British West Indies—died May 22, 1948, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Chicago" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chicago</a>, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Illinois-state" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Illinois</a>, U.S.), Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose <em>Home to Harlem</em> (1928) was the most popular <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/novel" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">novel</a>written by an American black to that time. Before going to the U.S. in 1912, he wrote two volumes of Jamaican <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/dialect" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dialect</a> verse, <em>Songs of Jamaica</em> and <em>Constab Ballads</em> (1912). --Bio via Britannica.com<br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
