biography
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McKay, Claude
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originally Festus Claudius McKay, pseudonym Eli Edwards
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pronunciation:
[muhkiy]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1889–1948)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica. He had already published two volumes in Jamaican dialect before he arrived in the USA to study at Tuskegee Institute, AL (1912) and Kansas State (1912–14). He moved to New York City and began to publish his poems under his pseudonym. By this time he was having an influence on ‘Harlem Renaissance’, and was also widely respected internationally. He lived abroad (1922–34), returning to New York in poor health. In addition to his major work, Harlem Shadows (1922), he wrote novels, such as Home to Harlem (1928), short stories, an autobiography, and the sociological study, Harlem: Negro Metropolis (1940). |
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