(Joseph Allan) J. Allan Dunn

Born in London in 1872, he later moved to the United States and built a varied career as a traveler, editor, journalist, and fiction writer. Before becoming known mainly for magazine fiction, he worked as a correspondent and drew on a life that seems to have given him plenty of material for action-heavy storytelling.

Writing as J. Allan Dunn, he became one of the most productive authors in the American pulp magazines, publishing well over a thousand stories, novels, and serials between 1914 and 1941. He first became especially associated with Adventure, and his fiction ranged widely, though reference sources note that westerns made up more than half of his enormous output.

He also wrote under other names, including Allan Dunn and Joseph Montague. Today he is remembered as a classic pulp-era professional: energetic, versatile, and able to turn experience into stories full of motion, danger, and escape.