Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935)
Author of Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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the American Negro in the World War" (1919)
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the American Negro in the World War" (1919)
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Works by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contributor — 160 copies
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction (2002) — Contributor — 121 copies
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996) — Contributor — 88 copies
Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers (2009) — Contributor — 54 copies
Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-1994 (1996) — Contributor — 40 copies
Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (1994) — Contributor — 28 copies
The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women (1859-1993) (1993) — Contributor — 23 copies
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- Legal name
- Nelson, Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar
- Other names
- Nelson, Alice Dunbar
Moore, Alice Ruth
Wright, Monroe - Birthdate
- 1875-07-19
- Date of death
- 1935-09-18
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Place of death
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- Harlem, New York, USA
- Education
- Straight University
Cornell University
Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art
University of Pennsylvania - Occupations
- novelist
poet
essayist
critic
teacher
columnist (show all 9)
public speaker
diarist
women's suffrage leader - Relationships
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence (husband)
- Short biography
- Alice Ruth Moore was born to a racially-mixed, middle-class family in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1892, she graduated from Straight University (now Dillard) and began her career as a teacher. Her first collection of short stories and poems, Violets and Other Tales, was published in 1895 in The Monthly Review. In 1898, she married Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet and journalist, after a courtship by correspondence that began when he saw Alice's picture printed with one of her poems. She moved with him to Washington, D.C. Paul Dunbar provide to be an alcoholic and abusive husband, and Alice left him in 1902 and moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where she taught at Howard University. She continued to publish under the name Alice Dunbar. Many of her short stories and plays were rejected by publishers and producers because they focused on racial oppression. She also wrote poetry, essays, and newspaper articles. In 1913-1914, she was co-editor and writer for the A.M.E. Review, one of the most influential church publications of the era. She published Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence in 1914. The collection Caroling Dusk (1927) included "I Sit and Sew," her powerful poem about World War I. She became a field organizer for the women's suffrage movement and campaigned for the passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. After her third marriage in 1916 to Robert J. Nelson, a poet and civil rights activist, she used the surname Dunbar-Nelson. In 1920, she edited and published The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer, a literary and news magazine aimed at a Black audience. With Nelson, she co-edited the Wilmington Advocate. She became a successful columnist for various newspapers and a popular public speaker. Her diary was published in 1984.
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- Works
- 23
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- 30
- Members
- 185
- Popularity
- #117,260
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
- 53
- Languages
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