John Dunning

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born

January 01, 1942 in Brooklyn, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.oldalgonquin.com/

genre

Nonfiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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John Dunning was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, NY. He was raised in Charleston, SC, is married, and has two adult children.

John always wanted to write, but was a poor student. He left high school in the tenth grade, partly because of an inability to concentrate and absorb lectures. Several years ago he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD), a malady that could not have been imagined in the glorious 1950s.

"This may explain my long affection for typewriters," he says. "Unlike a computer, a great old manual typewriter was an honest machine. You did your work, it did its work. There was no sneaky nonsense, no hidden screens that popped up and wouldn't go away, and at no time in my 35 years as a writer did I ever 'lose' anything becaus...more

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Books by John Dunning

Average rating: 3.80 · 6943 ratings · 706 reviews · 19 distinct works

	Booked To Die (Cliff Janeway, #1) 392 avg rating — 2166 ratings — published 1992 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway, #2) 387 avg rating — 1422 ratings — published 1995 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Bookman's Promise (Cliff Janeway, #3) 377 avg rating — 1128 ratings — published 2004 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Sign Of The Book (Cliff Janeway, #4) 375 avg rating — 857 ratings — published 2005 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Bookwoman's Last Fling (Cliff Janeway, #5) 356 avg rating — 774 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime 353 avg rating — 239 ratings — 13 editions	My rating:
	Deadline 348 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Booked Twice: Booked to Die and The Bookman's Wake 397 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	The Holland Suggestions 308 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions	My rating:
	On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio 483 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Series by John Dunning

Cliff Janeway (5 books)
by John Dunning

382 avg rating — 6419 ratings

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Quotes by John Dunning

“The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.”
― John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake

tags: camera , photography , reading

19 people liked it

“The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.”
― John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake

tags: crime

8 people liked it

“What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.”
― John Dunning, The Bookwoman's Last Fling

6 people liked it

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