Robert Dunn

Robert Dunn is a writer, teacher, musician, and photographer.

His novels include The Sting Rays, Pink Cadillac (chosen as a Book Sense pick in 2002), Cutting Time: a Novel of the Blues, Soul Cavalcade, Meet the Annas, Look at Flower (which Wavy Gravy digs!), Stations of the Cross, and the recent Savage Joy. An excerpt from Pink Cadillac appeared in The Best in Rock Fiction (Hal Leonard, 2005). Another musical story, Bo Diddley, is in the anthology The Best Underground Fiction (Stolen Time Publishing, 2006).

For the last years of the writer Bernard Malamud's life, Dunn was his personal assistant.

Dunn has also published widely, including an O. Henry Prize-winning story, as well as fiction in The Atlantic, Redbook, Omni, and numerous literary journals, a poem in The New Yorker, and a front-page essay in the New York Times Book Review.

For the past 30 years Dunn has taught fiction writing at The New School in New York City, though his main work has been for magazines. For years he worked for Sports Illustrated, but his first job was in The New Yorker magazine's typing pool (which he writes about in his novel Savage Joy).

As a musician, Dunn is the founder of the musical group Thin Wild Mercury, as well as its guitar player and principal songwriter. The group is on hiatus, but in the past they've played often around New York City, including regularly at Arlene's Grocery and CB's Gallery.

Recently, Dunn has gotten into photography, especially photobooks, and his books have beem for sale at PS1 MOMA, the International Center of Photography, Printed Matter, and the Strand's Rare Book Room. More on his photobooks at ecstaticlightphoto.com. He's also teaching a course in photobooks at The New School.

Dunn is married to a set designer/art director and lives in New York City and Woodstock.

Find out more at www.robertdunn.net, including music tracks and info on new novels and photobooks.