# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-laurence-dunbar
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:39:42.903Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-laurence-dunbar"
name: "Paul Laurence Dunbar"
slug: "paul-laurence-dunbar"
description: "Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been 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."
tagline: "American poet, novelist, and short story writer (1872–1906)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Laurence_Dunbar_circa_1890.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1872-06-27"
deathDate: "1906-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           23.057508
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump