Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird

by Gene Andrew Jarrett

Book Overview

The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history

A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) 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"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691150524
• ISBN13: 9780691150529
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"