Claude Mckay [date unknown] Claude McKay (1889 - 1948) Portrait of poet, novelist and journalist, Claude McKay. He was born Festus Claudius McKay in Sunny Ville, Clarendon, Jamaica. He was the son of farmers, Thomas Francis McKay and Hannah Anne Elizabeth Edwards. The youngest of eleven children, he was sent to live with his brother, a school teacher, to receive the best education possible.
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