• Gene Andrew Jarrett on Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Caged Bird That Sang

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    In this episode, Andrew is joined by Gene Andrew Jarrett, author of Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Lift and Times of a Caged Bird.

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    Gene Andrew Jarrett is Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature. He is also the coeditor of The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar and The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar.


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