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Claude Mckay was born and raised in Clarendon, Jamaica
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he was apprenticed to a wheelwright and cabinetmaker in Brown’s Town, Jamaica
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Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads was Claude Mckay first novel and he was awarded money from the Jamaican Institute of Arts and Sciences for his novel.
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Claude Mckay used the award money he won to move to America
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Claude Mckay attend Tuskegee institute and Kansas State University
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“If We Must Die.” The defiant tone and the open outrage of the poem caught the attention of the black community,
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Claude Mckay left for England where he stayed for more than a year, writing and editing for a Communist newspaper
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Claude Mckay returned to New York early in 1921 and spent the next two years with The Liberator
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Home to Harlem was the first best-selling novel of the Harlem Renaissance
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Claude Mckay spent most of his time in France until settling in Tangiers in 1931,
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With the help of some American friends, McKay returned to New York in 1934. He hoped to be of service to the black community.
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In the spring of 1944 he moved to Chicago, and by fall of that year he was baptized into the Roman Catholic church.
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He died in Chicago, Illinois
