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'''Claude McKay''' (1889-1948) was a [[Jamaica|Jamaican]]-born [[African-American]] novelist and poet. He was an important figure in the [[Harlem Renaissance]] and the first African American to write a best-selling novel.
 
'''Claude McKay''' (1889-1948) was a [[Jamaica|Jamaican]]-born [[African-American]] novelist and poet. He was an important figure in the [[Harlem Renaissance]] and the first African American to write a best-selling novel.
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In 2012, a researcher working in the archives of [[Columbia University]] discovered an unpublished McKay novel from 1941 titled ''Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem,'' in which the author commented on Harlem's reaction to global events such as the Italian invasion of [[Ethiopia]] and his own break with the [[Communist]] Party. <ref>      [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/books/harlem-renaissance-novel-by-claude-mckay-is-discovered.html Felicia R. Lee, "New Novel of Harlem Renaissance Is Found," New York Times, September 14, 2012.]</ref>
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In 2012, a researcher working in the archives of [[Columbia University]] discovered an unpublished McKay novel from 1941 titled ''Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem,'' in which the author commented on [[Harlem]]'s reaction to global events such as the Italian invasion of [[Ethiopia]] and his own break with the [[Communist]] Party. <ref>      [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/books/harlem-renaissance-novel-by-claude-mckay-is-discovered.html Felicia R. Lee, "New Novel of Harlem Renaissance Is Found," New York Times, September 14, 2012.]</ref>
    
===Published works===
 
===Published works===
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