(Festus) Claude(=Claudius) McKAY
(also wrote as: [Eli EDWARDS])

Sex : Male

Nationality: USA?

Born : 1889 (wrongly 1890) Sep 15
            near Clarendon, Jamaica

Lived : New York City (Manhattan), New York, USA

Died :   1948 May 22 (or 2)
             Chicago, Illinois, USA
aged :   58
More info can be found online at:
English-language Wikipedia

More info can be found offline at:
Who Was Who in America, vol 2
Contemporary Authors, vols 104 & 124
Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, vol 73
Caribbean Writers, ed Donald E Herdeck [1979]
Dictionary of Literary Biography, vols 4 & 45 & 51 & 117

             Book Titles              InfoDate(s)Read Online
Songs Of JamaicaEnglish
poetry
1912 
Constab BalladsEnglish
poetry
1912 
Spring In New Hampshire, And Other PoemsEnglish
poetry
1920 
Harlem ShadowsEnglish
poetry
1922 
Home To HarlemEnglish
fiction
1928 
Banjo: A Story Without A PlotEnglish
fiction
1929 
GingertownEnglish
short stories
1932 
Banana BottomEnglish
fiction
1933 
A Long Way From HomeEnglish
autobiography
1937 
Harlem: Negro MetropolisEnglish
autobiography
1940 
Selected PoemsEnglish
poetry
1953 
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