The life and Times of Claude McKay

Born

Sep 15, 1890

First publish

Mar 14, 1910

Songs of Jamaca went on the market when he was just 20 years old

Attends Taskegee

Mar 18, 1912

Traveled to US to go to school in Alabama

Studied Agriculture

Sep 12, 1912

Kansas State was more interesting to him

Harlem Dancer and Invocation

Jan 5, 1917

Began writing about political concerns

Harlem Shadows

Jan 20, 1922

Amoung first book published during Harlem Renassance

Visits Soviet Union

Period: Nov 27, 1922 to Jun 13, 1923

Developed an interest in communism

Home to Harlem

Mar 18, 1928

Most famous novel; won the Harmen Gold Award for Liturature

• Harmon Foundation Award for distinguished literary achievement, NAACP

Mar 18, 1929

Moves to Harlem

Oct 28, 1934

James Weldon Johnson Literary Guild Award

Oct 20, 1937

Died of Heart Failure

Mar 21, 1984