James G. (James Gerald) Dunton

Born in 1899, James G. Dunton is associated with the semi-autobiographical war novel A Maid and a Million Men, first published in 1928. The book follows an ambulance and army-world setting in wartime France and has remained available through later reprints and public-domain editions.

Reliable biographical details are scarce, but contemporary and family-history material connects him with World War I service, which helps explain the firsthand feel of his best-known fiction. His writing stands out for mixing wartime adventure with comedy and romance rather than treating the subject in a strictly solemn way.

Because so little confirmed information is easy to trace today, Dunton is remembered mainly through his book itself. For listeners interested in overlooked interwar fiction, his work offers a vivid, unusual angle on the First World War era.