Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1872)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

African-American writer (1872–1906)

Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer 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 writing stories and verse when he was a child. He…