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Paul Laurence Dunbar

1872-1906 US, Dayton, Ohio
Spoken Word

Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began to write stories and verse when still a child and was president of his high school's literary society. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper.

     
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Poems For Young PeoplePaul Laurence Dunbar1974Album
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