Black History Presents – Daily knowledge: Paul Laurence Dunbar (Day 14)
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14/02/2012,
by Mr. Blair,
in African-American Awareness,
Black People,
Blair History Month,
General,
my people
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Much of his popular work in his lifetime used a Negro dialect, which helped him become one of the first nationally-accepted African American writers. Much of his writing, however, does not use dialect; these more traditional poems have become of greater interest to scholars. Some of Dunbar’s works are Oak and Ivy, Lyrics of Lowly Life, Folks from Dixie, and Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow.