| LC control no. | n 79058991 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3525.A24785 |
| Personal name heading | McKay, Claude, 1890-1948 |
| Variant(s) | McKay, Festus Claudius, 1890-1948 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1889-09-15 |
| Death date | 1948-05-22 |
| Place of birth | Clarendon (Jamaica) |
| Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Profession or occupation | Civil rights workers Journalists Poets Novelists |
| Found in | His Harlem shadows, c1922. LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: McKay, Claude, 1890-1948; many citations show b. date as 1890; several with 1889, and one: b. 1891) Wikipedia, accessed Nov. 9, 2009 (Claude McKay (Sept. 15, 1889, Clarendon, Jamaica - May 22, 1948, Chicago, Illinois) Jamaican-American poet, novelist, journalist, and social and political radical, was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance; footnote: There has been much confusion over whether McKay was born in 1889 or 1890, but his birth certificate has been discovered showing that he was, in fact, born in 1889) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_McKay> |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | no 98004698 |
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