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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 over one hundred and fifty 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. Personal life Originally from Memphis, Dunn now resides with his wife, Mary, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Published full-length plays Belles (1989) Minus Some Buttons (1991) Sand Pies and Scissorlegs (1992) Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain (1994) Judge and Jury (1994) Frank's Life (1998) Cabin Fever: A Texas Tragicomedy (2000) The Deer and the Antelope Play (2001) Helen's Most Favorite Day (2005) Dix Tableaux (2007) A Delightful Quarantine (2007) 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) Books Ella Minnow Pea (2001) Welcome to Higby (2002) Ibid: A Life (2004) Zounds! A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections (2005) The Calamitous Adventures of Rodney And Wayne (2009) Under the Harrow (2012) 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) References External links 2002 interview Random House interview Ella Minnow Pea interview. Discover the Mark Dunn popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Mark Dunn books.

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    Seeing Other People

    Mike Gayle

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    The Hope Family Calendar

    Mike Gayle

    A compelling and emotional novel, for fans of Jojo Moyes and Jenny Colgan.'With a style similar to David Nicholls, Gayle's writing is incisive, lyrical and very beautiful . . . It'...

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    Ella Minnow Pea

    Mark Dunn

    A hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhereElla Minnow Pea is a girl li...

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    It Occurs to Me That I Am America

    Jonathan Santlofer

    A provocative, unprecedented anthology featuring original short stories on what it means to be an American from thirty bestselling and awardwinning authors with an introduction by ...