“I am nearer discouraged than I have ever yet been.”
About Paul Laurence Dunbar
27 June 1872–9 February 1906
Paul Laurence Dunbar was born on 27 June 1872 in Dayton, Ohio, and died there on 9 February 1906, only thirty-three years later. In that brief life he became one of the most accomplished and consequential American writers of his generation: a poet of extraordinary musical discipline, a novelist and short-story writer…