Letters in ExileA collection of private correspondence from one of the Harlem Renaissance's brightest and most radical voices The Jamaican born, queer author Claude McKay (18901948) was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His 1919 poem "If We Must Die" expressed a revolutionary vision for militant Black protest art, while his novels, including Home to Harlem, Banjo, and Banana Bottom, described ordinary Black life in lyrical prose. Yet for all that McKay