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Alice Dunbar Nelson, Biographical Note, "Caroling Dusk" (1927)
12023-05-20T07:09:53-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e12131plain2023-05-20T07:09:53-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1BORN Alice Ruth Moore, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Educated in public schools and Straight College in New Orleans. Afterwards studied at University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University and School of Industrial Art. Married to Paul Laurence Dunbar in 1898. Taught school prior to marriage in New Orleans, and Brooklyn. One of the founders of the White Rose Industrial Home in New York, and the Industrial School for Colored Girls in Delaware. At present teaching in Delaware. Published Violets and Other Tales, The Goodness of St. Rocque, Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence, The Dunbar Speaker, and The Negro in Louisiana. Contributor to magazines and newspapers, as short story writer and columnist. Married to Robert John Nelson, 1916.