Mark Dunn

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Memphis, TN, The United States

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Mark Dunn is the author of several books and more than thirty full-length plays, a dozen of which have been published in acting edition.

Mark has received over 200 productions of his work for the stage throughout the world, with translations of his plays into French, Italian, Dutch and Hungarian. His play North Fork (later retitled Cabin Fever: A Texas Tragicomedy when it was picked up for publication by Samuel French) premiered at the New Jersey Repertory Company (NJRC) in 1999 and has since gone on to receive numerous productions throughout the U.S.

Mark is co-author with NJRC composer-in-residence Merek Royce Press of Octet: A Concert Play, which received its world premiere at NJRC in 2000. Two of his plays, Helen’s Most Favorite Day and...more

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Books by Mark Dunn

Average rating: 3.78 · 9,301 ratings · 2,301 reviews · 27 distinct works

	Ella Minnow Pea 3.81 avg rating — 8,782 ratings — published 2001 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Ibid: A Novel 3.15 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Welcome to Higby : A Novel 3.25 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Under the Harrow 3.52 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	ZOUNDS!: A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections by Mark Dunn, Sergio Aragonés 3.46 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Belles: A Play in Two Acts and Thirty-Nine Phone Calls 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	The Calamitous Adventures of Rodney and Wayne, Cosmic Repairboys: The Age Altertron 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Feral Park 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Frank's Life 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Minus Some Buttons: A Play in Two Acts 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1991	My rating:

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“Lately, I haph startet painting my torso in pretty, motley hews. I sit in phront oph the mirror in the sleepy-room. I atmire my hantyworg. I am a hooman apstrat paining.”
― Mark Dunn, Ella Minnow Pea

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“Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out like unwanted toadstools when they appear. Perhaps they will eventually disappear altogether, and the accompanying halts and stammers as well: those troublesome, maddening pauses that at present invade and punctuate through caesura all manner of discourse. Trying so desperately we all are, to be ever so careful.”
― Mark Dunn, Ella Minnow Pea

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“On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the terrestrial manifestation of an empyrean Nollopian desire, that desire most surely being that the letter "Z" should be utterly excised--fully extirpated--absolutively heave-ho'ed from our communal vocabulary!”
― Mark Dunn, Ella Minnow Pea

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Ella Minnow Pea A Novel in Letters, Mark Dunn

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