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By Laravione Finley. He was born on September 15, 1889. He died because of heart failure on May 22, 1948.

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1 By Laravione Finley

2 He was born on September 15, 1889. He died because of heart failure on May 22, 1948

3 Was born Festus Claudius McKay in Sunny ville, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica.The son of Thomas Francis McKay and Ann Elizabeth Edwards. The Youngest of eleven children. McKay was sent at an early age to live with his older brother, a school teacher, so he could be given the best education available. McKay began to write poetry at the age of ten.

4 At the age of 20 McKay published a book of verse called songs of Jamaica he married Eulalie Lewars. Went to Tuskegee Institute. Didn’t have any children.Became and American citizen in 1940.

5 He was a writer and a poet

6 Flower of Love After the Winter America Flame Heart A Prayer A Memory of June

7 Picture of Claude McKay

8 http://www.poemhunter.com/claude-mckay/ http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_ r/mckay/life.htm http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/25

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