Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

"Paul Laurence Dunbar ... within its pages, perhaps Dunbar's best-known poem. - We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, This debt we pay to human guile ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry is as relevant today as it was over a century ago. His ability to navigate between standard English and African American dialect, his exploration of universal and ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond the Mask is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

Born to former slaves in Dayton, Ohio, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), is best remembered for his poem, "We Wear the Mask” and for lines from “Sympathy” that became the title of Maya ...