Born February 10, 1922 near Gravesand Bay, New York and moved with
his family at the age of 5 to Belford, a nearby coast town where he still
lives today (?); studied at Villanova University from 1939 until America
entered WW II, when he joined the marines. On Iwo Jima, a general saw some
of Dunn's sketches and assigned him to record his impression of combat
in a series of drawings. In 1948, he completed his formal education at
Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He began his career doing advertising and
television workin New York.
Between 1951 and 1957 he provided cover paintings for Signet Books ,then
Pocket Books (where he was the firm's first full-time cover artist, filling
the position which James Avati held at the New American Library and receiving
a salary commensurate with the importance of his role), then Perma Books
and then, finally, Cardinal Editions; along the way, he also did four cover
designs for Dell. In addition to his paperback work, Dunn has also painted
many seascapes.
