(Joseph Allan) J. Allan Dunn

Born in London on January 21, 1872, Joseph Allan Elphinstone Dunn later built his career largely in the United States, where he became one of the most prolific writers in the pulp-magazine era. He is best known under the name J. Allan Dunn, and reference sources consistently describe him as a hugely productive author who published well over a thousand stories, novels, and serials between 1914 and 1941.

Before and alongside his fiction career, Dunn was known as a traveler, journalist, and war correspondent, and that background helped give his stories a lived-in sense of action and place. He wrote across several popular genres, including westerns, sea stories, South Seas adventures, detective fiction, and science fiction, and he became especially associated with magazines such as Adventure.

Dunn died on March 25, 1941. No suitable verified portrait image was confirmed from the sources checked here, so none is included.