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Claude McKay (1890–1948)

Author of Home to Harlem

Includes the names: Claude McKay, Claude McKay; Introduction John Dewey; Biographica

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Works by Claude McKay

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Home to Harlem 139 copies
Banjo: A Story without a Plot 76 copies
Banana Bottom 50 copies, 1 review
Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) 46 copies, 1 review
Long Way From Home 26 copies
Complete Poems (American Poetry Recovery Series) 11 copies
The passion of Claude McKay; selected poetry and prose, 1912-1948 7 copies
Harlem Glory: A Fragment Of Aframerican Life 6 copies
Harlem: Negro metropolis 4 copies
Harlem Shadows: The Poems Of Claude Mckay (1922) 3 copies, 1 review
America (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 2 copies
Harlem Dancer (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) 2 copies
The White House (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) 2 copies
A Long Way from Home (The American Negro : His History and Literature) 1 copy

The Tropics in New York (Short Story) 1 copy

The Negroes in America 1 copy

If We Must Die (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) 1 copy

Songs of Jamaica 1 copy

Gingertown 1 copy

My green hills of Jamaica and five Jamaican short stories 1 copy

Also by Claude McKay

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Writing New York (Original Edition) (Contributor) 176 copies, 2 reviews
The New Negro : Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (Contributor) 143 copies
Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (Author) 17 copies
African-American Classics: Graphic Classics Volume 22 (Author, some editions) 3 copies, 1 review

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