Paul Laurence Dunbar was born at 311 Howard Street in Dayton, Ohio, on June 27, 1872, to parents who were enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War. After being emancipated, his mother Matilda moved to Dayton with other family members, including her two sons Robert and William from her first marriage. Dunbar's father Joshua escaped from slavery in Kentucky before the war ended. He traveled to Massachusetts and volunteered for the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first two black units to serve in the war. The senior Dunbar also served in the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment. Paul Dunbar was born six months after Joshua and Matilda's wedding on Christmas Eve, 1871.
Early life
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Early life
Dayton, Ohio. Dayton, Ohio June 27, 1872 Dayton, Ohio.
when was i know why the caged bird sings poem written
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1969
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who was the author?
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Maya Angelou
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is it a part of a book?
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An autobiography describing the early years of the poet.
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what inspired the name of this text?
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The title of the book comes from the third stanza of Dunbar's poem "Sympathy".
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when was this poem published?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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what's the full name of the author you just mentioned?
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
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where was he born?
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Dunbar was born and brought up in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in Northern Ireland, the eldest of seven siblings. He was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers before attending the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Adrian Dunbar | Early life
Dunbar-Dunbar was born on 8 October 1849 at Seapark, Forres, Morayshire, Scotland, the son of Edward Dunbar-Dunbar, a Captain in the 21st Fusiliers, and Phoebe Dunbar (died 1899 leaving £109,808). He received his university education at Oxford, graduating with a B.A. degree in 1873.
J. A. Dunbar-Dunbar | Early life
Dunbar is originally from Hartford, Connecticut, and moved to Greencastle, Pennsylvania when he was a child with his grandparents, Elmer Dunbar and the late Ellen Dunbar.
Koran Dunbar | Early life
Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio to parents who were enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper, and served as president of his high school's literary society. Much of Dunbar's more popular work in his lifetime was written in the "Negro dialect" associated with the antebellum South, though he also used the Midwestern regional dialect of James Whitcomb Riley.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Introduction
Paul Laurence Dunbar was born at 311 Howard Street in Dayton, Ohio, on June 27, 1872, to parents who were enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War. After being emancipated, his mother Matilda moved to Dayton with other family members, including her two sons Robert and William from her first marriage. Dunbar's father Joshua escaped from slavery in Kentucky before the war ended. He traveled to Massachusetts and volunteered for the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first two black units to serve in the war. The senior Dunbar also served in the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment. Paul Dunbar was born six months after Joshua and Matilda's wedding on Christmas Eve, 1871.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Early life
He was raised in the American Midwest and studied for an MFA at University of Arizona.
Donald Dunbar | Early life and education
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Rockmond Dunbar | Early life and education
The marriage of Dunbar's parents was troubled, and Dunbar's mother left Joshua soon after having their second child, a daughter. Joshua died on August 16, 1885, when Paul was 13 years old. Dunbar wrote his first poem at the age of six and gave his first public recital at the age of nine. His mother assisted him in his schooling, having learned to read expressly for that purpose. She often read the Bible with him, and thought he might become a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It was the first independent black denomination in America, founded in Philadelphia in the early 19th century.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Early life
Laurence William Fraser Stark was born on 16 November 1920 in Bolton, Lancashire.
Laurence Stark | Early life
Dunbar was born in Ayr and moved to Glasgow at an early age. She attended Ayr Academy, a secondary school in Ayr.
Karen Dunbar | Early life
Born to parents Revd. Arthur Grafftey-Smith and Mabel Grafftey-Smith (née Barton), he was educated Clifton College, Repton and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Laurence Grafftey-Smith | Early life
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Paul Laurence Dunbar | Later work
Nasmith was born on 1 April 1883 at 136 Castelnau in Barnes, which was then in the county of Surrey and is now in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
Martin Dunbar-Nasmith | Early life and education
McCole was born in Castlemilk, Glasgow.
Paul McCole | Early life
Paul Lewis Hancock born in London 26 March 1937. He graduated from Sheen Grammar School and later Durham University.
Paul Lewis Hancock | Early life and education
Leonard was born in County Meath, Ireland.
Patrick James Leonard | Early life and education
Paul Gilchrist was born in Dartford, Kent.
Paul Gilchrist | Early life
Graff was born in Stepney in 1938 into a Jewish family, the son of a Romanian mother, Rebecca Segal, and a Russian father, Harry Graff. His brother Raymond was born in 1947.
Laurence Graff | Early life
Gallie was born in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, near Glasgow, the son of an engineer. He grew up in a British boarding school and later published his memoirs of this in the book "An English School".
W. B. Gallie | Early life
Saidie Orr was born in Granger, Missouri, on June 23, 1880, the daughter of Robert Perry Orr and Catherine Lindsay.
Saidie Orr Dunbar | Early life
He was born in Manchester. He went to King's School Macclesfield, Cheshire. He attended Teesside Polytechnic, now Teesside University, beginning in 1992.
Guy Laurence | Early life
Born in Kensington in London on 10 December 1957, he is the son of Joyce ("née" Everett, 1930–1991) and Louis Hardcastle (1915–2000).
Paul Hardcastle | Early life
Dunbar was born in Glasgow in 1928, where she attended Hutcheson's Girls School. She was the first in her family to attend university, graduating from the University of Glasgow with a first class honours degree and numerous awards including 'Most Distinguished Arts Graduate' in 1950. She then went on to study at Girton College, Cambridge, where she completed a second degree, achieving a first in both part of the Classical tripos.
Nan Dunbar | Early life and education
Paul Dupré was born on 29 June 1888 in Gagny, France.
Paul Dupré | Early life
Laurence Housman was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, one of seven children including an older brother and sister, the classical scholar and poet A. E. Housman and the writer Clemence Housman. In 1871 his mother died, and his father remarried, to a cousin. After education at Bromsgrove School, he went with his sister Clemence to study art at the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London.
Laurence Housman | Early life
Baxter was born at the Bearstead Jewish Maternity Hospital, Stoke Newington. His family lived in Ilford, Essex. He was educated at University College London (UCL).
Laurence Baxter | Early life
Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar was born on January 31, 1862 in London, Ontario, the son of Alexander Dunbar and Susannah Jackson. He attended the Art School of Toronto with his brother Frederick and in around 1880, Ulric Dunbar emigrated from Canada to the United States to pursue a career in sculpting.
Ulric Dunbar | Early life
Marcus was born in London in 1954, the son of playwright Frank Marcus, a German-born Jew who fled to Britain in 1939 and the actress Jacqueline Sylvester. He was educated at Latymer Upper School and Lincoln College, Oxford.
Paul Marcus | Early life
Paul Stephen Fortune Fearon was born in a suburb of Liverpool in 1950. He immigrated to LA in 1978.
Paul Fortune | Early life
Bowen was born in Leominster, Herefordshire.
Jarrod Bowen | Early life
Leonard was born in Broadford, County Clare, Ireland to John and Mary Leonard.
Patrick Thomas Leonard | Early life and education
Laurence was born in Marylebone, London, the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Laurence, later of Letchworth, Hertfordshire.
Frederic Laurence | Early life and background
Paul was born in 1942 in the Anuliya village of Amta of Howrah. Though he was admitted to a local school, he could not continue his studies due to financial trouble.
K. C. Paul | Early life
Legentilhomme was born on March 26, 1884 in Valognes, Manche.
Paul Legentilhomme | Early life
Fergusson was born in London, the son of the Scottish journalist, author and MEP, Adam Fergusson, and Penelope Hughes (d.2009). He was educated at Eton College and Brasenose College, Oxford.
James Fergusson (author) | Early life
He was born in Paris, and abandoned by his mother soon after birth. His father, Firmin Léautaud, who begrudgingly brought him up, was a prompter at the Comédie-Française, and because of him Paul first became familiar with the world of the theater.
Paul Léautaud | Early life
Hanscom was born on August 20, 1906. He attended public schools in Malden and Wilmington, Massachusetts and graduated from Wilmington High School in 1923.
Laurence G. Hanscom | Early life
440 from the Wright School in Augusta, Georgia on 29 March 1916.
Reginald George Malcolm | Early life
Paul Yvan Robert Waddington was born in Lyon, France on 28 October 1893.
Paul Waddington | Early life
De Lisle was born in Exeter, Ontario, the son of an Air Force pilot.
Paul De Lisle | Early life and education
Roland's father was a writer of short stories and TV comedy scripts and his mother an actress.
Paul Roland | Early life
John Ordway was probably born in 1775 in the town of Hebron, New Hampshire, though some sources say Dunbarton.
John Ordway | Early life
He was born on August 12, 1885, in Pennsylvania.
Percy Parke Lewis | Early life
Potts was born on 10 March 1961 in Malta. He was educated at Wellington School in Somerset.
Duncan Potts | Early life
Burroughs was born on February 6, 1870 in Dunbarton, New Hampshire. He attended the public schools, and was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, in 1894.
Sherman Everett Burroughs | Early life
David Keith Ballow was born in October 1804 at Montrose, Scotland, the eldest son of John Ballow. He studied at the University of Edinburgh.
David Keith Ballow | Early life
Paul Lindley was born in Sheffield, England and moved to Lusaka, Zambia when he was eight years old. He attended the International School of Lusaka, Barlborough Hall School and Mount St Mary's College in Derbyshire, UK.
Paul Lindley | Early life
Paul Caddis was born in Irvine, North Ayrshire, on 19 April 1988 and attended St Joseph's Academy in Kilmarnock.
Paul Caddis | Early life
Dowswell was born in 0 in Chester, England. He has a degree in history from Goldsmith's College, earned in 1978.
Paul Dowswell | Early life and education
Dunbar was born in Carnbee, Scotland. His birth is recorded as December 13, 1812. His father was William Dunbar, a mechanical engineer, came from a family line of engineers. Dunbar immigrated with his family to Pickering, Ontario, while a boy of 12. He went to high school and college in Canada. He took up an interest in mechanics and learned mechanical engineering.
Robert Dunbar | Early life
Ewen George Sinclair-Maclagan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 24 December 1868 to a banker and his wife. He attended United Services College in North Devon, England, where Rudyard Kipling was one of his classmates.
Ewen Sinclair-Maclagan | Early life
Lowell was born in New York City. He was educated at the Dalton School, Colet Court and St. Paul's School, London.
Hugo Lowell | Early life and education
Gorman was born on August 25, 1927, in Syracuse, New York.
Paul F. Gorman | Early life and education
Roberta Johnson Dunbar was born at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, the daughter of Daniel Dunbar and Louisa Cartwright Dunbar.
Roberta Dunbar | Early life
He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Gary Callander | Early life
Lawrence was born in Balham, London, before moving first to Totteridge House in Battersea for a year before settling more permanently on the Latchmere Estate and attending John Burns Primary School.
Jamie Lawrence | Early and personal life
Lieutenant Laurence Wilfred Allen, alias Laurence William Allen, was born in Coventry, England on 14 September 1892.
Laurence W. Allen | Early life
Towards the end of her mother's life, Maureen would sometimes trade houses with Lewis, helping him take care of her mother. Dame Maureen had a son, Richard Francis Dunbar of Hempriggs (born Richard Francis Blake on 8 January 1945), so the baronetcy returned on her death in 1997 to the male line.
Maureen Dunbar | Early life
Paul Randles was a native of Seattle, Washington.
Paul Randles | Early life
He was born in Paradise, Nova Scotia, the son of Robie Stewart Leonard and Ruby E. Darling. Leonard was educated at Acadia University and Dalhousie University.
Malcolm Stewart Leonard | Early life and education
Dunbar and his wife separated in 1902, but they never divorced. Depression and declining health drove him to a dependence on alcohol, which further damaged his health.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Marriage and declining health
Born in Gosforth, Northumberland, he was educated at St Augustine's High School, Edinburgh and at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh.
Paul Cullen, Lord Pentland | Early life
Baillargeon was born in Montreal, Quebec.
Paul Baillargeon | Early life
Born Paul Hustoft in San Diego, California, his father died when he was a child and he later adopted his stepfather's surname Reed after his mother remarried. He was educated at California State University, Chico and the University of California, Davis.
Paul Reed (writer) | Early life
Brodie-Hall was born in London and emigrated to Australia in 1924, leaving his parents. He worked as a farm hand in New South Wales and moved to WA in 1927. He co-bought a garage business but went broke during the Great Depression.
Laurence Brodie-Hall | Early life
Paul Goodloe McIntire was born in 1860 in Charlottesville, Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia for one session, 1878–1879, and then left "since I had to make a living."
Paul Goodloe McIntire | Early life
James Thom Durrant was born in Johannesburg and educated at St John's College.
Jimmy Durrant | Early life
Giles was born in Cardiff to Alan and Maureen Giles. He grew up on Virgil Street in the Grangetown area of the city and attended Courtmead Junior School before moving up to Fitzalan High School.
Paul Giles | Early life
He and his wife moved to the capital, where they lived in the comfortable LeDroit Park neighborhood. At the urging of his wife, Dunbar soon left the job to focus on his writing, which he promoted through public readings. While in Washington, DC, Dunbar attended Howard University after the publication of "Lyrics of Lowly Life". In 1900, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB), then often fatal, and his doctors recommended drinking whisky to alleviate his symptoms. On the advice of his doctors, he moved to Colorado with his wife, as the cold, dry mountain air was considered favorable for TB patients.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Marriage and declining health
He worked as an accounts clerk for C. T. Payne and took evening classes in book-keeping, but started writing poetry in his spare time. It was in this environment that he came to understand the rigid social divisions of suburban London, so that when he went to British India, he felt an instinctive familiarity with the interactions of caste and class in an imperial colony.
Paul Scott (novelist) | Early life
Walter Rankin was born and raised in Braintree, Essex.
Walter Rankin | Early life
Farley was born on June 1, 1926, in Lowell. He grew up in Lowell and graduated from Lowell High School.
Leo J. Farley | Early life
Duggar.
Luther Duncan | Early life
Daughtry was born in Newton Grove, North Carolina on December 3, 1940. He would graduate from Wake Forest University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962 and go on to receive his L.L.B. from the same university's School of Law in 1965.
N. Leo Daughtry | Early life and education
He was born in Washington, D.C. to Sue Bright Davison and Ellis Charles Davison on 28 September 1917. He attended Dunbar High School and then Howard University, graduating in 1938. He obtained his master's degree in 1940 in chemistry and zoology.
Frederic E. Davison | Early life and education
Paul was born in Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
Pamela Snelgrove-Paul | Early life
Knight was born in 1917 in Fareham and educated at Bedford Modern School.
Roland Lee Knight | Early life
He was born in Crusheen, County Clare.
Thomas L. Brodie | Early life
Dunbar graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1978. He graduated from Robert Morris University with a B.S. in Business Administration in 1993.
George Dunbar (Pennsylvania) | Early Life
Maxwell Hutcheon Findlay was born on Aberdeen, Scotland on 17 February 1898.
Maxwell Findlay | Early life
Paul Francis Jennings was born on 20 June 1918 in Leamington Spa. His parents were William Benedict and Gertrude Mary Jennings. He was educated at King Henry VIII school in Coventry and at the Douai Catholic school in Woolhampton, Berkshire.
Paul Jennings (British author) | Early life and education
Philippe Langenieux-Villard was born on May 20, 1955 in Paris, France.
Philippe Langenieux-Villard | Early life
Cranham was born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, the son of Lochgelly-born Margaret McKay Cranham (née Ferguson) and Ronald Cranham, a London-born civil servant.
Kenneth Cranham | Early life
George Devol was born in an upper middle-class family in Louisville, Kentucky. He attended Riordan Prep school.
George Devol | Early life
Dunbar's work was praised by William Dean Howells, a leading editor associated with the "Harper's Weekly", and Dunbar was one of the first African-American writers to establish an international reputation. He wrote the lyrics for the musical comedy "In Dahomey" (1903), the first all-African-American musical produced on Broadway in New York. The musical later toured in the United States and the United Kingdom. Dunbar also wrote in conventional English in other poetry and novels. Since the late 20th century, scholars have become more interested in these other works. Suffering from tuberculosis, which then had no cure, Dunbar died in Dayton, Ohio at the age of 33.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Introduction
David Roberts McMurtry was born in 1940 in Clontarf, Ireland. He was brought up in Dublin and educated at Mountjoy School in Dublin.
David McMurtry | Early life
The work attracted the attention of James Whitcomb Riley, the popular "Hoosier Poet". Both Riley and Dunbar wrote poems in both standard English and dialect.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Writing career
Wallace was born in Sandown on the Isle of Wight and studied at Southampton's University College.
Lawrence Wallace | Early life
Paul Bookout was born on June 30, 1962, in El Dorado, Arkansas, to Jerry and Loretta (née Langford) Bookout. He graduated from Arkansas State University.
Paul Bookout | Early life and education
Dunckley was born in Warwick. He was educated at the Baptist college at Accrington, Lancashire, and at the University of Glasgow.
Henry Dunckley | Early life and education
Broderick was born in Bristol, in the west of England in 1935, and attended Bembridge School on the Isle of Wight. He studied painting, illustration and sculpture under Ray Millard and Geoffrey Deeley at the Regent Street Polytechnic from 1952 to 1957 and with Sidney Harpley and Keith Godwin at the Hammersmith School of Art from 1964 to 1965.
Laurence Broderick | Early life
Pringle was born in Madras, the son of a Scottish father, General George Pringle, and English mother, Octavia Catherine Cother.
John Wallace Pringle | Early life
McPhail was born in Westminster, London, and raised in Rush, Dublin, Ireland.
Stephen McPhail | Early life
He was born in Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro. He later lived in Porto Alegre.
Larry Pinto de Faria | Early life
Ellsberry was born in Birmingham, Alabama and was a 1938 graduate of Parker High School.
Julius Ellsberry | Early life
Young was born on March 31, 1883 in Albia, Iowa to parents David Whitcomb and Mary Young.
Leigh J. Young | Early life
Dunbar was raised on Brafferton Arbor on the Buttershaw council estate in Bradford with seven brothers and sisters. Both her parents had worked in the textile industry. Dunbar attended Buttershaw Comprehensive School.
Andrea Dunbar | Early life
Moira Dunbar was born in 1918 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She grew up in Stornoway, Strathpeffer, and Kilmarnock, and attended Cranley School for Girls. Dunbar studied geography at St Anne's College of the University of Oxford, completing her Bachelor of Arts in 1939. During World War II, she travelled around the United Kingdom with a theatre troupe as an actor and stage manager.
Moira Dunbar | Early life
Paul Harrod was born in Menlo Park, California on February 5, 1958, to Lee and Betty Harrod.
Paul Harrod | Early life
David DeCoteau was born on January 5, 1962 in Portland, Oregon.
David DeCoteau | Early life