Mark Dunn

 ( 20th-century American Dramatists And Playwrights ) 

Mark Dunn (born July 12, 1956, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American author and playwright. He studied film at Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis) followed by post-graduate work in screenwriting at the University of Texas at Austin moving to New York in 1987 where he worked in the New York Public Library while writing plays in his free time.

Among the 35 plays Dunn has written (as of 2023), Belles and Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain have been produced more than 150 times. Dunn served as playwright-in-residence with the New Jersey Repertory Company and the Community Theatre League in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Dunn is the author of the popular "progressively lipogrammatic" novel Ella Minnow Pea (2001).

In 1998, Dunn sued the writers, distributors and producers of The Truman Show, claiming that the story was based on a play he had written and performed Off-Broadway in 1992, Frank's Life. Hollywood stole my life, independent.co.uk; accessed March 25, 2015.

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Personal life Originally from Memphis, Dunn now resides with his wife, Mary, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Published full-length plays

• Belles (1989)
  Mark Dunn (1989). 9780573691416, Samuel French, Inc.. . ISBN 9780573691416
• Minus Some Buttons (1991)
  Mark Dunn (1991). 9780573692789, Samuel French, Inc.. . ISBN 9780573692789
• Sand Pies and Scissorlegs (1992)
• Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain (1994)
  Mark Dunn (1994). 9780573694431, Samuel French, Inc.. . ISBN 9780573694431
• Judge and Jury (1994)
• Frank's Life (1998)
  Mark Dunn (1998). 9780871298584, Dramatic Publishing. . ISBN 9780871298584
• Cabin Fever: A Texas Tragicomedy (2000)
  Mark Dunn (2025). 9780573627460, Samuel French, Inc.. . ISBN 9780573627460
• The Deer and the Antelope Play (2001)
• Helen's Most Favorite Day (2005)
• Dix Tableaux (2007)
• A Delightful Quarantine (2007)
  Mark Dunn (2025). 9780573650673, Samuel French, Inc.. . ISBN 9780573650673
• PIGmalion (2010)
• Seven Interviews (2014)
• LMNOP (2015)
• Belles: The Reunion (2016)
• Happily Ever After: A Wedding Comedy (2016)
• The Glitter Girls (2018)
• The Puzzle with the Piazza (2022)

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Books

• Ella Minnow Pea (2001)
  Mark Dunn (2025). 9781402566172, RB Large Print. . ISBN 9781402566172
• Welcome to Higby (2002)
• (2004)
  Mark Dunn (2025). 9781931561655, MacAdam/Cage Pub.. . ISBN 9781931561655
• Zounds! A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections (2005)
• The Calamitous Adventures of Rodney And Wayne (2009)
• Under the Harrow (2012)
  Mark Dunn (2025). 9781596923775, MacAdam/Cage Publishing, Incorporated. . ISBN 9781596923775
• American Decameron (2012)
• We Five (2015)
• Pentaptych (2018)
• Quizzing America: Television Game Shows and Popular Culture in the 1950s (2018)
• Texas People's Court: The Fascinating World of the Texas Justice of the Peace (2022)

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