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