Full Bio: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Part 2

[ORIGINALLY BROADCAST ON August 31, 2022] For the latest installment of our ongoing Full Bio series, we speak with Gene Jarrett, dean of the faculty and English professor at Princeton, and author of a new biography about the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, called, Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird. On day two, we learn about how Dunbar tried to make a career in poetry and writing after high school, including the time he met Frederick Douglass, and why he moved to New York. Plus, we hear WNYC's Michael Hill read a selection of Dunbar's poetry.