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PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872—1906) was born in Dayton, Ohio, to two former slaves from Kentucky. The family was poor and the father fled when Dunbar was two. Dunbar’s mother, Matilda, supported her children by working as a washerwoman and by fostering in them a sense of the importance of education and a love of poetry. Dunbar began reciting and writing poetry in his childhood. The only black man in his class at Dayton Central High, he was a star pupil, editor of the school paper, and president of the school’s literary society. While in school, he wrote for the High School Times and edited The Dayton Tatler along with his high school friends Orville and Wilbur Wright. When Dunbar graduated, he had difficulty finding a job appropriate to someone of his considerable education and worked as an elevator operator. Through mostly grassroots efforts and the help of friends, his reputation as a writer grew. His first collection, Oak and Ivy, was published in 1893, and that same year he was invited to recite at the Chicago World’s Fair. There he met Frederick Douglass, who called him “the most promising young colored man in America.” His second book, Majors and Minors, was published in 1895, and thrust him into the national spotlight when William Dean Howells praised it in Harper’s. His first two books were republished professionally and he traveled to Engand to recite in 1897. He married Alice Ruth Moore, a young writer and teacher, who left him after a rocky relationship in 1902. Suffering from tuberculosis and depression, he died in 1906. He ultimately produced twelve books of poetry, four books of stories and plays, and four novels.

HERBERT WOODWARD MARTIN is professor emeritus and poet-in-residence at the University of Dayton. He received his M.Litt. from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College and his doctorate in creative writing from Carnegie Mellon University. The recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, he has published six collections of his own poetry and a collection of Dunbar’s dramatic works. He performs Dunbar’s poetry for audiences around the world and is the Paul Laurence Dunbar Poet Laureate for Dayton, Ohio.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.
[Poems. Selections]
Selected poems / Paul Laurence Dunbar ; edited with
an introduction by Herbert Woodward Martin.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.

eISBN : 978-1-101-17731-0

1. African Americans—Poetry. I. Martin, Herbert Woodward.

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