Claude McKay was born in Jamaica. His older Brother thought and educated him. His brother had a library of English novels, poetry and scientific texts. By the age of 20, McKay published a book called Songs of Jamaica, recording his impressions of black life in Jamaica in dialect.
He published two sonnets, "The Harlem Dancer" and "Invocation". McKay also wrote lots of subjects from his Jamaican homeland to romantic love with a passionate language. McKay was interested in Communism and travelled to Russia and to France. There he had met Edna St. Vincent Millay and Sinclair Lewis.
MyKay moved back to the USA in 1934 and lived in the African American neighbourhood, Harlem. He was one of the poets of the time with Langston Hughes, who set the tone for the Harlem Renaissance and also gained the deep respect of younger black poets.
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