Author:Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1872–1906)

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American author and poet

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• "Representative American Negroes", an essay from The Negro Problem, by Booker T. Washington, et al. (1903)

• The Uncalled (1898)
• The Fanatics (1902)
• The Sport of the Gods, a novel (1902)

• Folks from Dixie (1898)
• The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories (1900) (transcription project)
• The Love of Landry (1900)
• The Heart of Happy Hollow: A Collection Of Stories (1904) (transcription project)
  • "The Scapegoat"
  • "One Christmas At Shiloh"
  • "The Mission Of Mr. Scatters"
  • "A Matter Of Doctrine"
  • "Old Abe's Conversion"
  • "The Race Question"
  • "A Defender Of The Faith"
  • "Cahoots"
  • "The Promoter"
  • "The Wisdom Of Silence"
  • "The Triumph of Ol' Mis' Pease"
  • "The Lynching Of Jube Benson"
  • "Schwalliger's Philantropy"
  • "The Interference Of Patsy Ann "
  • "The Home-Coming Of 'Rastus Smith"
  • "The Boy and The Bayonet"

• Oak and Ivy (1892)
• Majors and Minors (1895) IA
• Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896) (transcription project)
• Li'l' Gal (1896)
• Poems of Cabin and Field (1899)
• Candle-Lightin' Time (1901) (start transcription)
• Lyrics of the Hearthside published (1902), copyright date of 1899
• The Haunted Oak (1900)
• In Old Plantation Days (1903)
• Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (1905)
• Joggin' Erlong (1906)
• The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1913) (transcription project)

See Poems

• In The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson
  • "A Death Song"
  • "The Debt"
  • "The Haunted Oak"
  • "Little Brown Baby"
  • "Lover's Lane"
  • "A Negro Love Song"
  • "Ships That Pass in the Night"
  • "When de Co'n Pone's Hot"

• "Dunbar, Paul Laurence" in The Biographical Dictionary of America Vol. 3 (1906)
• "Dunbar, Paul Laurence," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Paul Laurence Dunbar" in Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923)
• "Paul Laurence Dunbar" by Alice Dunbar Nelson, in Caroling Dusk (1927), edited by Countee Cullen