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In presenting Dunbar's correspondence with editors, supporters, admirers, and critics, The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar adds to our understanding of an important and under-appreciated figure. --Henry B. Wonham, coeditor of Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture An invaluable window on the deliberate way in which Dunbar built his literary career. The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar also illuminates the wide range of his network of Black and white intellectuals, artists, and political leaders from Frederick Douglass to Theodore Roosevelt. --James Smethurst, author of The African American Roots of Modernism

Born the son of slaves and dead (from complications from tuberculosis and alcoholism) at the early age of 33, Dunbar is a paragon of a gifted and determined writer and certainly worthy of understanding and appreciation. This collection is a crucial addition to the study of early African American literature and the complex integration of Black writers into the national corpus before the Harlem Renaissance. Highly recommended. --CHOICE In presenting Dunbar's correspondence with editors, supporters, admirers, and critics, The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar adds to our understanding of an important and under-appreciated figure. --Henry B. Wonham, coeditor of Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture An invaluable window on the deliberate way in which Dunbar built his literary career. The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar also illuminates the wide range of his network of Black and white intellectuals, artists, and political leaders from Frederick Douglass to Theodore Roosevelt. --James Smethurst, author of The African American Roots of Modernism

In presenting Dunbar's correspondence with editors, supporters, admirers, and critics, The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar adds to our understanding of an important and under-appreciated figure. --Henry B. Wonham, coeditor of Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture

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Cynthia C. Murillo is instructor in the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University where she teaches courses on world literature and interdisciplinary liberal arts.   Jennifer M. Nader is visiting instructor in the Department of Humanities and Communication at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University where she teaches courses in college writing, literature, technical writing, and business communication.  

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