James G. (James Gerald) Dunton

Born in 1899, James G. Dunton—James Gerald Dunton—published popular fiction in the 1920s. Confirmed works include Wild Asses (1925), and he is also credited as the author of A Maid and a Million Men and as editor of C'est la guerre! The Best Stories of the World War.

Available records show that his life extended far beyond his early writing career. An obituary page identifies him as a retired Army major, a World War I veteran, and a longtime resident of Falls Church, Virginia; it also records his death in 2001 at the age of 101.

That combination of early literary activity and a century-long life gives Dunton an unusual place in the historical record: a novelist and editor of the interwar years who was still remembered decades later for his military service and public life.