Paulus Laurentius Dunbar (27 Iunii 1872—9 Februarii 1906) fuit poeta, scriptor mythistoriarum, et scriptor scaenicus Americanus. Natus in urbe Dayton Ohii parentibus qui servi in Kentukia ante bellum fuerant, Dunbar iam puer poemata scribere coepit, societatique litterariae suae scholae superioris praefuit. Poemata aetate suae 16 in diario Daytoniensi primum protulit.

Multa suorum operum populo gratiissima cum iam vivebat in lingua Anglica vernaculari Afroamericana, cum Meridie Civitatum Foederatarum ante bellum consociata, scripta sunt. Quae opera a Gulielmo Dean Howells, iudice litterario magni momenti cum Harper's Weekly eo tempore consociato laudata sunt, et Dunbar itaque fuit unus ex primis scriptoribus Afroamericanis qui fama per omnem civitatem usi sunt. In Dahomey, libellum ludi scaenici, scripsit (1903), primam comoediam musicam cuius personae fuerunt Afroamericani et in theatro Broadway producta est; quae praeterea iter per Civitates Foederatas et Britanniarum Regnum fecit. Dunbar etiam poemata et mythistorias lingua Anglica solita utentes composuit; quorum eruditi ex saeculo vicensimo exeunte studiosi facti sunt.

Dunbar tuberculosi laborans mortuus est anno aetatis suae tricensimo tertio.

Duo brevia operum Dunbaranorum exempla, quorum aliud lingua Anglica solita, aliud dialecto Afroamericano utitur, varietatem operum poetae monstrant.

Verba Anglica	Verba Latine reddita
What dreams we have and how they fly Like rosy clouds across the sky; Of wealth, of fame, of sure success, Of love that comes to cheer and bless; And how they wither, how they fade, The waning wealth, the jilting jade— The fame that for a moment gleams, Then flies forever,—dreams, ah—dreams!	Qualia somnia habemus et quomodo fugiunt sicut nubes roseae trans caelum; divitiarum, famae, prosperitatis certae, amoris qui ad exhilandum et beandum venit; et quomodo marcent, quomodo pallent, divitiae decrescentes, fatigatio repudians— gloria quae brevissime coruscat, tum in perpetuum fugit,—somnia, o—somnia!

Verba Anglica	Verba Latine reddita
Sunshine on de medders, Greenness on de way; Dat's de blessed reason I sing all de day. Look hyeah! What you axing? What meks me so merry? 'Spect to see me sighin' W'en hit's wa'm in Febawary?	Pratis apricis, Viriditate futura; Ea de causa beata quare in diem cano. Ecce! quid rogas? Quid me facit hilarum? Putasne me visum suspiratu cum Februarius calidus fit?

• Oak and Ivy (1892)^[1]
• Majors and Minors (1896)^[1]
• Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896)^[1]
• "We Wear the Mask" (1896)^[1]
• When Malindy Sings (1896)
• Poems of Cabin and Field (1899)
• Lyrics of the Hearthside (editus 1902, copyright 1899)
• The Haunted Oak (1900)
• In Old Plantation Days (1903)^[1]
• Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (1905)^[1]

• Folks From Dixie (1898), corpus fabularum brevium^[2]
• The Heart of Happy Hollow: A Collection of Stories^[3]
• The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories (1900).^[3]
• The Uncalled (1898), mythistoria, www.gutenberg.org
• The Love of Landry
• The Fanatics, de Civitatibus Foederatis initio Belli Civilis
• The Sport of the Gods (1902), mythistoria^[3]

• "Representative American Negroes." In The Negro Problem, ed. Booker T. Washington et al.^[3]

• "Ode to Ethiopia," poema in corpore Oak and Ivy.
• Litterae Afroamericanae
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, compositor Afroamericanus

• Alexander, Eleanor C. 2001. Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore. Novi Eboraci: New York University Press. ISBN 0814706967.
• Best, Felton O. 1996. Crossing the Color Line: A Biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872-1906. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. ISBN 0787222348.
• Nettels, Elsa. 1988. Language, Race, and Social Class in Howells's America. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813116295.
• Wagner, Jean. 1973. Black Poets of the United States: From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0252003411.
• Wiggins, Lida Keck. 1992. Lida Keck Wiggins, The Life and Works of Paul Lawrence Dunbar.^{[nexus deficit]} Winston-Derek. ISBN 1555234739.

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Paulum Laurentium Dunbar spectant.

Vicicitatio habet citationes quae ad Paulus Laurentius Dunbar spectant.

• Dunbar House State Historical Site, ohsweb.ohiohistory.org (Ohio Historical Society)
• Dunbar House, www.nps.gov
• "Dunbar's Legacy of Language," www.npr.org (NPR, 2006)
• Opera auctore "Paulus Laurentius Dunbar" apud gutenberg.org reperta
• Paul Laurence Dunbar: Online Resources, www.loc.gov (Bibliotheca Congressionalis)
• "Paul Laurence Dunbar Library special collection,", www.libraries.wright.edu (Universitas Civica Wrightiana)
• Situs publicus de Paulo Laurentio Dunbar, www.dunbarsite.org (Universitas Daytonensis)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection (MS-002), ead.ohiolink.edu (Bibliotheca Metropolita Daytonensis)
• "Paul Laurence Dunbar" Toledo's Attic Exhibit, www.toledosattic.org
• "Paul Laurence Dunbar, Modern American Poetry," www.english.illinois.edu (Universitas Illinoesiae)
• Situs publicus de Dunbar, www.poets.org (Academia Poetarum Americanorum)]