Kem Nunn
Nunn at Étonnants Voyageurs festival in 2013
Born	1948 (age 76–77)
Occupation	Novelist, Screenwriter
Education	University of California, Irvine (MFA)
Genre	Fiction
Notable works	Tapping the Source

Kem Nunn (born 1948) is a third-generation Californian novelist, surfer, and magazine andtelevision writer who lives in southernCalifornia.^[1] He has been described as "the inventor ofsurf-noir" for his novels' dark themes, political overtones, and surf settings.^[2] He is the author of six novels, including his 1984 seminal debut surf novelTapping the Source, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.Tapping The Source inspired the 1991 moviePoint Break, and its2015 remake.^[3] Nunn's novel,Tijuana Straights, received aLos Angeles Times Book Prize.

Nunn collaborated with producerDavid Milch on the third and final season (2006) of theHBO Western drama seriesDeadwood. Milch and Nunn co-created the HBO seriesJohn from Cincinnati, a surfing series set inImperial Beach, California, which premiered on June 10, 2007.^[4] Nunn also wrote for the last three seasons of the television drama series,Sons of Anarchy.

Nunn was a creator, executive producer, and head writer for the television series,Chance, with Hugh Laurie, directed by Lenny Abrahamson.Chance was based on Nunn's novel by the same name.

Nunn also spent time in the graduate programs in Creative Writing at Columbia and University of California, Irvine.

Kem Nunn grew up inPomona^[5] and Northern California.^[6] He has written the novelsTapping the Source,Dogs of Winter,Pomona Queen,Unassigned Territory,Tijuana Straits, andChance. He received anMFA in creative writing from theUniversity of California, Irvine.^[1]

Nunn joined the crew of theHBO western dramaDeadwood as a writer for the third and final season in 2006. The series was created byDavid Milch and focused on a growing town in the American West. Nunn wrote the episode "Leviathan Smiles".^[7] He also wrote forseason 5 ofSons of Anarchy.^[8]

• Tapping the Source (1984)^[3] was a finalist for the National Book Award.
• Unassigned Territory (1986)^[9]
• Pomona Queen (1992)^[10]
• The Dogs of Winter (1997)^[1]
• Tijuana Straits (2004)^[6][5] received theLos Angeles Times book prize.
• Chance (2014),^[11] adapted for television asChance^[12]

• Kem Nunn atIMDb
• Chance atIMDb
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