Robert Dunn (born 1950) is the author of seven musical novels, '' Pink Cadillac'' (2001), '' Cutting Time'' (2003), '' Soul Cavalcade'' (2005), '' Meet the Annas'' (2007), '' Look at Flower'' (2011), '' Stations of the Cross: A Musical Novel of Obsession'' (2013), and ''Savage Joy'' (2017). The novels are published under Dunn's own independent publishing company, Coral Press, located in

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. His novel ''The Sting Rays'' is available online at Electron Press. Dunn has won an

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for his short story "Hopeless Acts Performed Properly, With Grace." He has also written for ''

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''. He was born in Santa Monica, Calif., and graduated from the

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. From 1976 to '82, he was on the editorial staff of ''The New Yorker'' magazine. In 1982, he spent a residency at the artists' colony

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. For the final three years of the novelist

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's life (1983–86) Dunn was his literary assistant. Dunn currently teaches fiction writing and a course in photobooks at

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and has taught at

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in the past. At

, he taught the first on-line fiction writing class at any accredited institution, through their innovative Dial Program, and set the model for classes that followed. In 2016, he taught the first photobook course at the University. His musical group,

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, played often in NYC and was a regular act at

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before its closing. Additionally, Dunn worked for years as a copyreader at ''

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''. In 2012, Dunn published his first photobook, ''OWS,'' now in th
permanent library collection
of the New York Public Library. A photo from ''OWS'' was in an International Center of Photography show in 2014. More recent photobooks include his ''Angel Parade'' series, now up to volume 16 (2012 to present), ''Meeting Robert Frank'' (2013), ''New York Street,'' ''A Carnival of Souls,'' ''I Shall Be Free #7, Electrick Spirits, ''and'' Purloined Souls. ''Many of Dunn's photobooks are also in the permanent collections of th
Museum of Modern Art
and th
International Center of Photography
libraries.''

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