Finley Peter Dunne

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Finley Peter Dunne

Finley Peter Dunne (born July 10, 1867 in Chicago , Illinois , † April 24, 1936 in New York ) was an American writer and journalist.

Life

Dunne, the son of Irish immigrants, attended high school in Chicago and then worked for various daily newspapers.

Dunne became known through the character of the Irish innkeeper Mr. Martin Dooley, who criticized contemporary events with humor and sharpness in Irish dialect. The stories first appeared as a column in the Chicago Evening Post from about 1890 , but soon gained national attention. About 700 episodes had appeared by the end of the First World War . Many of them have also been published in book form.

In 1908 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

From 1902 Dunne was married to Margaret Abbott , the first American Olympic champion. Among their four children was the screenwriter and director Philip Dunne .

Works

  • Mr. Dooley in peace and war. 1898.
  • What Dooley says. 1899.
  • Mr. Dooley's philosophy. 1900.
  • Mr. Dooley says. 1910.
  • Mr. Dooley on making a will. 1919.

literature

  • Charles Fanning: Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley. The Chicago years. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 1978, ISBN 0-8131-1365-2 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Blair, Raven I. McDavid Jr. (Eds.): The Mirth of a nation: America's great dialect humor . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN 1983, ISBN 0-8166-1022-3 ( online in Google Book Search).
  2. ^ Charles Fanning: The Irish voice in America: 250 years of Irish-American fiction . University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 2000, ISBN 0-8131-0970-1 ( online in Google Book Search).
  3. ^ Members: Finley Peter Dunne. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Biography on sports-reference.com
  5. ↑ Philip Dunne, 84, Screenwriter And an Opponent of Blacklisting. Obituary. In: New York Times . 4th June 1992.
personal data
SURNAME Dunne, Finley Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1936
Place of death new York