Robert G Dunn's Books
Mar.22.2011
It’s June 1967, the Summer of Love, and Cynda “Flower” Evans has just run away from her dreary home in Oregon for the glorious Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco.
There Flower tumbles into the hippie scene, spare-changing on Haight and crashing with the Grateful Dead, before getting swept up into grand ’60s adventures that send her hitchhiking and train-hopping...
Jun.01.2007
In the early 1960s, the girl group The Annas ruled rock ‘n’ roll with their wild beehive hair-dos, soaring harmonies, and bad-girl attitudes. Narrated by their songwriter, Dink Stephenson, this suspenseful tale follows the rollercoaster life and mysterious death of the haunted-eyed and raven-haired lead singer, Anna Dubower. At the top of the charts, The Annas have two number-one...
May.07.2005
Come along on an amazing trip....
It’s spring 1964 and Fleur-de-Lys Records—a Detroit-based competitor of Motown—is sending its Soul Cavalcade bus tour to the Deep South and up the Eastern Seaboard: 20 cities in 24 days. On board are hit groups the Cravattes, the Shags, and the Daisies, dreamboat crooner Orlando Calabrese, soul sweetheart Mary Hardy, and up...
Jul.06.2003
A South Side Chicago blues joint
A hot young guitar player up against ...
... the King of the Blues
A witchy woman, a silver stripe in her hair
A young girl discovering her long-lost father
A white boy with his own secrets
They all come together in Cutting Time, a novel set in the Chicago blues scene in 1963.
Willie Lee Reed, a young guitarslinger from Detroit, blows...
May.07.2001
A runaway girl.
A down-at-its-heels roadhouse.
A hotheaded sax player.
A tormented record man.
A drop-in by Elvis Presley.
A magical car. . . .
Pink Cadillac is a secret history of the great lost 45 Pink Cadillac -- a record cut by a bluesy white girl in 1956.
A love story, a mystery, a book tinged with magic and mojo, Pink Cadillac tells one of the...
About Robert
I'm a writer, teacher, and musician. I've published widely, including an O Henry Prize-winning story, as well as fiction in The Atlantic, Redbook, Omni, and numerous literary journals, a poem in The New Yorker, and a front-page essay in the New York Times...