Black Fact= 1906 (Feb. 9)-Paul Laurence Dunbar, renowned poet and novelist, died in Dayton, OH, on this date in 1906. A book of his poems was published in 1913–The Complete Poems.
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African-American writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who wrote verse and short stories, many of which were written in black dialect despite the fact that he felt the marketability of dialect poetry was demeaning. He was one of the first black writers to attempt to make a living from his writing, and certainly one of the first to gain national prominence.
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