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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar

"He's definitely on her list of favorites," library consultant Kinsey Marable says of this African-American poet. Oprah's cache contains a rare copy of Dunbar's first book of poetry, Oak and Ivy, which he published in 1893 at the age of 21.

From the Fall 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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