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(Thursday)
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African American Vernacular English, English
Spouse
Alice Dunbar Nelson (1898-1906)
Education
Howard University
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♋ Cancer
Chinese Zodiac
猴 Monkey
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: American poet, novelist, and short story writer (1872–1906).
Born in Dayton (died at age 33).
Studied at Howard University.
The name Paul means small.
Biography
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 published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper, and served as president of his high school's literary society.
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