Alexander, Eleanor. Lyrics of sunshine and shadow : the tragic courtship and marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore : a history of love and violence among the African American elite. New York : New York University Press, 2001. [catalog record]

Bambakidis, Elli. The Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection : A special Collection of Historical Materials at the Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library. Dayton, Ohio : Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, 1995. [catalog record]

Brawley, Benjamin Griffith. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Poet of His People. Kennicat Press, 1967. [catalog record]

Common Ground. VHS. Directed by Michael Lorentz. Dayton, OH : Greater Dayton Public Television, 1995. [catalog record]

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar; with the introduction by W.D. Howells to Lyrics of Lowly Life. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1918. [catalog record]

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Paul Laurence Dunbar Papers at the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus. Microform. Columbus, Ohio: Archives and Manuscripts Division, Ohio Historical Society, 1972. [catalog record]

Hudson, Harold Gossie. A Biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Thesis. Ohio State University, 1970. [catalog record]

Martin, Herbert Woodward and Ronald Primeau. In His Own Voice : The Dramatic and Other Uncollected Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Athens : Ohio University Press, 2002. [catalog record]