Alice Dunbar Nelson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alice Dunbar Nelson

American writer, activist

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1875

Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 18-Sep-1935

Profession: writer, poet, author, educator, journalist, short story writer, suffragist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Alice Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 – September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist.
Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance.
Her first husband was the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar; she then married physician Henry A.
Callis; and married, lastly, to Robert J.
Nelson, a poet and civil rights activist.
She achieved prominence as a poet, author of short stories and dramas, newspaper columnist, and editor of two anthologies.