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| Born | (1950-11-16)November 16, 1950 (age 74) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist/Publisher/Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Notable works | Meet the Annas |
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Robert Dunn (born November 16, 1950) is the author[1] of seven musical novels,Pink Cadillac (2001),Cutting Time (2003),Soul Cavalcade (2005),Meet the Annas (2007),Look at Flower (2011),Stations of the Cross: A Musical Novel of Obsession (2013), andSavage Joy[2] (2017). The novels are published under Dunn's own independent publishing company,Coral Press, located in New York City. His novelThe Sting Rays is available online atElectron Press.[3]
Dunn has won anO. Henry Prize for his short story "Hopeless Acts Performed Properly, With Grace." He has also written forThe New Yorker,The Atlantic,The New York Times Book Review,The Sewanee Review,Omni Magazine, theMississippi Review, andMother Jones.
He was born inSanta Monica, California, and graduated from theUniversity of California, Berkeley. From 1976 to 1982, he was on the editorial staff ofThe New Yorker magazine. In 1982, he spent a residency at the artists' colonyYaddo. For the final three years of the novelistBernard Malamud's life (1983–86) Dunn was his literary assistant.[4]
Dunn currently teaches fiction writing and a course in photobooks atThe New School in New York City and has taught atDickinson College in the past. At The New School, he taught the first on-line fiction writing class at any accredited institution, through their innovative Dial Program, and set the model for classes that followed. In 2016, he taught the first photobook course at the University.[5] His musical group,Thin Wild Mercury, played often in NYC and was a regular act atCBGB before its closing.[4] Additionally, Dunn worked for years as a copyreader atSports Illustrated.
In 2012, Dunn published his first photobook,OWS, now in thepermanent library collection of the New York Public Library. A photo fromOWS was in anInternational Center of Photography show in 2014. More recent photobooks include hisAngel Parade series, now up to volume 16 (2012 to present),Meeting Robert Frank (2013),New York Street,A Carnival of Souls,I Shall Be Free #7, Electrick Spirits,and Purloined Souls.Many of Dunn's photobooks are also in the permanent collections of theMuseum of Modern Art and theInternational Center of Photography libraries.
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