“The spirit of the vagabond, the daemon of some poets, had got hold of me.”
About Claude McKay
15 September 1890–22 May 1948
In the pantheon of American literary history, few figures embody the contradictions and complexities of the twentieth century quite like Claude McKay. Born Festus Claudius McKay on September 15, 1890, in the verdant hills of Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, this poet, novelist, and essayist would become one of the most…