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Claude McKays birth
Claude McKay was born in Jamacia -
Growing up
Claude became the apprentice to a a carriage and cabnet maker -
Starting to write poetry
Met a man who incouraged him to keep writing and convensied him to write a native dialect . It was published the songs of Jamacia -
Going to the USA
McKay left Jamacia to go to Booker T.Washington Tuskegees institute he was suprised to see all of the racism -
Desesions
Claude decided not to be agronomist and moved to New York and married is childhood sweatheart Eulalie Lewers -
Publishing
Claude wrote two poems in Seven Arts under Alias Eli Edwards while workink has a waiter -
Liberator
1919 he met Crystal and Max Eastman who who produced the Liberator Claude would serve as co-editor until 1922 -
Arriving in London
McKay arrived in London in autumn 1919. He did frequent a soldier's clubon Drury Lane and the International Socialist Club at Shoreditch. -
Writing
At the International Socialist Club, McKay met Shapurji Saklatvala, A. J. Cook, Guy Aldred, Jack Tanner, Arthur McManus, William Gallacher, Sylvia Pankhurst and George Lansbury. He was invited to write for the Workers' Dreadnought. In 1920, -
Soviet Union
From November 1922 to June 1923, hewhent to the Soviet Union and attended the fourth congress of the Communist International in Moscow -
Writing in Moscow
stayed in Moscow to join the congress and There, he met many leading Bolsheviks including Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek. He wrote the manuscripts for a book of essays called Negroes in America -
Heading home
In 1928, McKay published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem,it won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature.