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Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American writer and poet, born on September 15, 1889, in Nairne Castle near James Hill, Clarendon, Jamaica. He passed away on May 22, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois. A seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance, McKay authored several collections of poetry, a collection of short stories, and two autobiographical works: "A Long Way from Home" (1937) and "My Green Hills of Jamaica," which was published posthumously. He also wrote a non-fiction socio-historical treatise entitled "Harlem: Negro Metropolis" (1940). His 1922 poetry collection, "Harlem Shadows," was one of the first books published during the Harlem Renaissance. McKay visited the Soviet Union from November 1922 to June 1923, where he attended the fourth congress of the Communist International in Moscow. He detailed his experiences in the essay "Soviet Russia and the Negro," published in the December 1923 issue of The Crisis Magazine. Additionally, he wrote manuscripts for a book of essays called "Negroes in America" and three stories published as "Lynching in America," both of which were initially published in Russian and later re-translated into English. His "Selected Poems" was published posthumously in 1953.

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