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Claude McKay was born on September 15, 1890 in Jamaica, West Indies.

In 1912, he wrote two volumes that got published in the same year which were Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads He also attended Booker T. Washingtons Tuskegee Institute. Also during this time, he received a gold medal from The Jamaican Institute of Arts and Sciences for his two volumes of poetry.

Between 1919- 1922, he wrote one of his most famous poems, If We Must Die

In 1919, he arrived to London.

He was claimed to be the first black journalist in Britain.

From November 1922 to June 1923, he had visited the Soviet Union and attended the fourth Congress of the Communist International in Moscow. He had wrote the manuscripts for a book of essays called Negroes in America and three stories published as Lynching in America, both were in Russian then they got translated into English.

In 1928, McKay published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature.