hi im Festus Claudius McKay and i was born in Clarendon in 1890. My parents are Thomas and Hannah McKay they are farmers. I am the youngest of eleven children and i am one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance. i am an avid reader and i began writing poetry at the age of ten.
1906, i was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker after the trade school i was supposed to attend was destroyed by the 1907 earthquake. In that same year, something far more propitious occurred i acquired a mentor by the name of Walter Jekyll. Jekyll, an Englishman who became an avid collector of Jamaican folklore, encouraged McKay to write in Jamaican dialect.
Claudius McKay
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