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American poet, novelist, and short story writer (1872–1906)
Also known as: Laurence Dunbar, Paul Dunbar, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Paul. L. Dunbar, Пол Лоренс Данбар, باول لورنس دانبار
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James Weldon Johnson1871–1938ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetDialect and standard-English poetry and fiction exploring Black American life at the turn of the century, plus musical theater lyrics. (AI reason)
Charles Chesnutt1858–1932ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetDialect-rich short fiction and novels about race, the color line and post-Reconstruction Black life. (AI reason)
Langston Hughes1901–1967ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetLyrical poetry rooted in Black vernacular speech and music, expressing both joy and racial pain. (AI reason)
Countee Cullen1903–1946ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetFormal, traditional lyric verse grappling with racial identity and longing. (AI reason)
Claude McKay1889–1948ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetDialect verse and sonnets of protest and endurance in the face of racism. (AI reason)
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper1825–1911ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetNineteenth-century African American poetry and fiction on slavery, freedom and racial uplift. (AI reason)
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James Whitcomb Riley1849–1916ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSentimental, musical Midwestern dialect verse of rural home life. (AI reason)
Joel Chandler Harris1848–1908ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSouthern dialect folk tales and plantation-era storytelling of the same period. (AI reason)
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetLyrical essays on the 'veil' and double consciousness echoing the masked-identity theme. (AI reason)
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