Mark Dunn

About the Author

Mark Dunn was born in Memphis Tennessee. He studied film at Memphis State University and then pursued a post-graduate degree in screenwriting at the University of Texas. He moved to New York in 1987, working at the New York Public Library while writing plays. Since then, Dunn has written five novels and over 30 plays, including Belles and Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain. Ella Minnow Pea, published in 2001, was Dunn’s debut novel. Dunn now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Ella Minnow Pea

Ella Minnow Pea lives on the fictional island of Nollop, located of the coast of South Carolina. The island is named after a man named Nevin Nollop, who is credited with the pangram, “the quick bro... view guide