His second novel begins on a train going to Colorado and centers on the life of Mildred Osborne. In his first work of long fiction he traces the relationship between Miss Hester Prime and the boy she adopts after his mother dies, Frederick Brent. The Love of Landry and The Uncalled were followed by his third novel, a family drama set prior to the Civil War. That work, The Fanatics, begins to venture into more political te
His second novel begins on a train going to Colorado and centers on the life of Mildred Osborne. In his first work of long fiction he traces the relationship between Miss Hester Prime and the boy she adopts after his mother dies, Frederick Brent. The Love of Landry and The Uncalled were followed by his third novel, a family drama set prior to the Civil War. That work, The Fanatics, begins to venture into more political territory, though it wasn't until the publication of his last novel, which features such urban characters as "Sadness" Williams and the showgirl Hattie Sterling, that this author explicitly tackled the problems of blacks in the 20th century. FTP, name this author of Sport of the Gods, an Ohio native probably best known for his poetry collections Oak and Ivy and Lyrics of Lowly Life.
His second novel begins on a train going to Colorado and centers on the life of Mildred Osborne.
Paul Laurence Dunbar