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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African-American poet and an author. He was prolific at writing short stories, novels, librettos, plays, songs essays and poetry. His work was popular with black and white readers of his day, and are celebrated today by scholars and scho ....
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.... a elevator operator and continued to write. At age twenty he appeared before an audience to give an address before the Western Association of Writers. This lead to notoriety outside of Dayton. A famous poet, James Whitcomb Riley read of Dunbar's work and encouraged him to publish his work. Dunbar approached the United Brethren Publishing House of Dayton, which eventually printed his first book, entitled Oak and Ivy. His second collection was published in 1895, Majors and Minors.
Dunbar's poets received positive reviews by novelist Williams Dean Howell,(one ....
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