Claude McKay
Festus Claudius McKay (September 15, 1890 – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet, and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, McKay first traveled to the United States to attend college, and encountered W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk which stimulated McKay’s interest in political involvement. He moved to New York City in 1914 and in 1919 wrote "If We Must Die", one of his best known works, a widely reprinted sonnet responding to the wave of white-on-black race riots and lynchings following the conclusion of the First World War.
Books
The New Negro
1925
ISBN 9780684838311
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices on Resistance, Reform, and Renewal an African American Anthology
1996
ISBN 9780847683468
Graphic Classics, Volume 22: African-American Classics
2011
ISBN 9780982563045
Banana Bottom
1933
ISBN 9783869152745
Romance in Marseille
2002
ISBN 9780525505983
The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry
1996
ISBN 9780976886624
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology
2007
ISBN 9781417784684
70+ Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays. Illustrated
2025
ISBN 9786178289423
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology
1999
ISBN 9780742560574
Harlem Shadows: Poems
1922
ISBN 9780593242698
Home to Harlem
1928
ISBN 9781555530242
Banjo
1929
ISBN 9781902934044
Selected Poems
1969
ISBN 9780486408767
Harlem Renaissance. Classic Collection. Illustrated
2025
ISBN 9786178289102
The Great Poems by African American Writers. Illustrated
2025
ISBN 9786178289362
A fierce hatred of injustice
2001
ISBN 9781859847404
A Long Way from Home
2007
ISBN 9780813539683- No cover
Romance in Marseille, and Three Short Stories
2001
ISBN 9780859894586