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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the “poet […]