author
James G. (James Gerald) Dunton
1899–2001
Remembered today mainly through lively early 20th-century fiction, this American writer left behind brisk, playful novels with titles that still catch the eye. His work often mixed romance, comedy, and mistaken-identity plots in a way that feels very much of its era.
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A Maid and a Million Men the candid confessions of Leona Canwick, censored indiscreetly by James G. Dunton
by James G. (James Gerald) Dunton
About the author
James G. Dunton, also listed as James Gerald Dunton, was born in 1899 and died in 2001. Library and public-domain catalog records identify him as the author of novels including Wild Asses (1925) and A Maid and a Million Men, and his books continue to circulate through library catalogs, used-book listings, and Project Gutenberg.
The surviving record available online is fairly thin, so it is safest to picture him through the work itself rather than a detailed personal history. The books attached to his name suggest a writer of light, energetic popular fiction, with an interest in witty situations, romance, and comic complications.
Because reliable biographical sources are scarce, many personal details about his life are hard to confirm from the sources I found. What can be said with confidence is that he had a long lifespan and left a small but still traceable body of fiction from the 1920s that remains discoverable for modern readers.