Paul Lawrence Dunbar by Gene Andrew Jarrett Mike Watts and have been translated into

and have been translated into more than a dozen languages

both playful and profound

despite its elegance and charm

and is now

delirious brilliance

Paul Lawrence Dunbar by Gene Andrew Jarrett Mike Watts and have been translated intoA major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (18721906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the poet laureate of his race hid the private struggles of a man who, in the words of his famous poem, felt like a caged