Home to Harlem

Claude McKay’s most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel now in Penguin Classics A Penguin Classic Claude McKay’s first novel, 

About the author

Claude McKay was born in Jamaica, and moved to the U.S. in 1912 to study at the Tuskgee Institute. In 1928, he published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. He also published two other novels, Banjo and Banana Bottom, as well as a collection of short stories, Gingertown, two autobiographical books, A Long Way from Home and My Green Hills of Jamaica and a work of non-fiction, Harlem: Negro Metropolis. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, and in 1977 he was named the national poet of Jamaica.Belinda Edmondson is Distinguished Professor in the departments of English and Africana studies at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of several books on Caribbean literature and has won numerous grants and fellowships for her research.

Product details

• Authors: Belinda Edmondson, Claude McKay
• Assisted by: Edmondson Belinda (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.02.2025
• EAN: 9780143138587
• ISBN: 978-0-14-313858-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Harlem, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, c 1920 to c 1929, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / African American & Black / Urban & Street Lit, Street fiction / urban fiction, Relating to African American / Black American people, Classic fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War I