Dunbar House
- 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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