Claude McKay was born on September 15, 1889 (to May 22, 1948). The bisexual Jamaican-American writer and poet was a seminal figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His poetry was political and often gritty, and he was among the first Harlem Renaissance poets to openly address bisexuality. Claude McKay was born Festus Claudius McKay in Nairne Castle, Clarendon, Jamaica (called “Sunny Ville” by McKay and the locals). Although McKay’s birth certificate lists 1889 as his birth year, McKay would later state […]

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