Claude McKay

Bibliography

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• Songs of Jamaica (poetry; also see below), introduction by Walter Gardner, Gardner (Kingston, Jamaica), 1912, reprinted Mnemosyne (Miami), 1969.
• Constab Ballads (poetry; also see below), Watts (London), 1912.
• Spring in New Hampshire, and Other Poems, Richards (London), 1920.
• Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude McKay, introduction by Max Eastman, Harcourt, Brace (New York, NY), 1922.
• Negry v Amerike, translated into Russian by P. Okrimenko, Gosudarstvennoe (Moscow), 1923, published as The Negroes in America, re-translated into English from Russian-language version by Robert J. Winter, edited by Alan L. McLeod, Kennikat (Port Washington, NY), 1977.
• Sudom Lincha, translated into Russian by A. M. and P. Okrimenko, Ogonek (Moscow), 1925, published as Trial by Lynching: Stories about Negro Life in North America, re-translated into English from Russian-language version by Robert Winter, edited by Alan L. McLeod, preface by H. H. Anniah Gowda, Centre for Commonwealth Literature and Research, University of Mysore (Mysore), 1977.
• Home to Harlem (novel), Harper (New York, NY), 1928.
• Banjo: A Story without a Plot (novel), Harper, 1929.
• Gingertown (short stories), Harper, 1932.
• Banana Bottom (novel), Harper, 1933.
• A Long Way from Home (autobiography), Furman (New York, NY), 1937.
• Harlem: Negro Metropolis (nonfiction), Dutton (New York, NY), 1940.
• Selected Poems, introduction by John Dewey, biographical note by Max Eastman, Bookman (New York, NY), 1953.
• The Dialectic Poetry of Claude McKay (contains Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads), edited by Wayne F. Cooper, Books for Libraries Press (Freeport, NY), 1972.
• The Passion of Claude McKay: Selected Poetry and Prose, 1912-1948, edited by Wayne F. Cooper, Schocken (New York, NY), 1973.
• My Green Hills of Jamaica, and Five Jamaican Short Stories, edited by Mervyn Morris, Howard University Press (Washington, DC), 1975.
• Harlem Glory: A Fragment of Aframerican Life, Kerr (Chicago), 1990.
• Romance in Marseilles, edited by Rich Bradbury, University of Exeter Press (Exeter, United Kingdom), 1995.
• Selected Poems, Edited and with an introduction by Joan R. Sherman, Dover Publications (Mineloa, NY), 1999.
• Complete Poems, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 2003.

Work represented in anthologies. Contributor to periodicals, including Workers' Dreadnought, Negro World, Catholic Worker, Ebony, Epistle, Interracial Review, Jewish Frontier, Nation, Seven Arts (under pseudonym Eli Edwards), New York Herald Tribune Books, and Phylon. Collections of McKay's papers are housed in the James Weldon Johnson Collection and in the Papers and Manuscript Collection, both in the Beineke Library, Yale University.