Poet and novelist Claude McKay had an unusually wide influence. This review by John Lowney cites his connections with Caribbean, American, and West African literary communities, the Harlem Renaissance, the Communist International, and the Catholic Worker, and briefly notes gay aspects of his life and writings. Lowney credits McKay’s Home to Harlem as the first novel by a Black writer to make it onto major US bestseller lists. It joins the public domain here in 10 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown