7 best short stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar began to write stories and verse when still a child; he was president of his high school's literary society. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper.



The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment:



- The Scapegoat.

- One Christmas At Shiloh.

- The Mission Of Mr. Scatters.

- A Matter Of Doctrine.

- Old Abe's Conversion.

- The Race Question.

- A Defender Of The Faith.



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 had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began to write stories and verse when still a child; he was president of his high school's literary society. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper.