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James Edmund Dunning

1873–1931

A journalist and author from the early 20th century, remembered for writing The Master Builders. His work sits in the world of public affairs and big personalities, with a style shaped by the concerns of his time.

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Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt

About the author

Born in 1873 and dying in 1931, James Edmund Dunning was an American writer whose best-known surviving book is The Master Builders. Reliable catalog and archive records confirm both his dates and his authorship of that work.

The available record online is fairly slim, but it suggests a career tied to writing about public life and notable figures. He also appears in archival material from the Theodore Roosevelt Center, which shows he moved in circles connected to national political and journalistic life.

Because detailed biographical sources are limited, much of his personal story remains hard to confirm from readily available references. What does remain clear is that his books and archival traces have preserved a small but interesting place for him in the literary and historical record.