A Long Way From HomeClaude McKay (18891948) was one of the most prolific and sophisticated African American writers of the early twentieth century. A Jamaican born author of poetry, short stories, novels, and nonfiction, McKay has often been associated with the New Negro or Harlem Renaissance, a movement of African American art, culture, and intellectualism between World War I and the Great Depression. But his relationship to the movement was complex. Literally absent