• The Paul Laurence Dunbar House was awarded a grant worth nearly $117,030 by President Clinton's Save America's Treasures program. For more information click here.

     

  • Wright State University in Dayton has an experimental database of Dunbar's works.

     

  • William Grant Still, an African-American composer, set some of Dunbar's poem to music. To read about the Afro-American Symphony, see this Duke University site.
  • To learn more about African-American history and literature, visit Keele University's American literature site, which includes information about other African-American writers and links to other African-American literature sites.

     

  • The Black Collegian, a career and self-development site, has compiled a list of African-American writers, artists, activists, scholars and politicians with links to profiles of these important historical figures.

     

  • Mark Twain, a contemporaty of Dunbar's, also used dialect in his extraordinary writings of American life. To learn more about Twain and his unique style, see this comprehensive site, which includes excerpts and critcal essays.

     

  • To learn more about Dunbar's life and career, see The Modern American Poetry's Paul Laurence Dunbar page, which includes literary criticism and examples of Dunbar's illustrated poems.

     

 


 



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