Which of the following statements about Claude McKay is LEAST accurate?
a. Though an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance, McKay spent most of the 1920s living outside of the United States.
b. Though he had written poetry for years, his work was ignored until the advent of the Harlem Renaissance brought attention to black writing.
c. An active socialist, McKay was fascinated by the culture of the black working class, and wrote about it in raw, even lurid, terms.
d. Though McKay started out as a poet, writing, among other things, an anthology of poems in Jamaican dialect, he would later shift his focus toward prose.
b. Though he had written poetry for years, his work was ignored until the advent of the Harlem Renaissance brought attention to black writing.
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