Robert Dunn (novelist)

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Robert Dunn (born 1950) is the author of three musical novels, Pink Cadillac (2001), Cutting Time (2003), and Soul Cavalcade (2005). A new musical novel, Meet the Annas, will be published in June 2007. He has won an O. Henry Prize for his short story "Hopeless Acts Performed Properly, With Grace." He has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the New York Times Book Review.

He was born in Santa Monica, Calif., and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1976 to '82, he was on the editorial staff of The New Yorker magazine; for the final three years of the novelist Bernard Malamud's life (1983–86) Dunn was his literary assistant.

Dunn currently teaches writing at The New School in New York City; his musical group, Thin Wild Mercury, plays often in NYC.

[1]www.coralpress.com (publisher of musical fiction)

[2]thin wild mercury (band)

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