James Allan Dunn (1872–1941), known professionally as J. Allan Dunn, was a prolific American writer of adventure and pulp fiction. Born in London and raised partly in Canada, he later settled in the United States, where he built a career supplying serialized adventure stories to magazines such as Argosy, Adventure, and Short Stories during the golden age of American pulp publishing. Dunn's fiction drew on his own restless early life — stints as a soldier, prospector, and traveler across North America, the Pacific, and beyond — lending his tales of frontier survival, sea voyages, and exotic locales a grounded, first-hand texture rare among his pulp contemporaries. His best-known novel, The Blazed Trail (not to be confused with the Stewart Edward White title), along with works like Jim Anthony, Super-Detective and numerous stand-alone adventure novels, established him as one of the most dependable and widely read adventure writers of the 1910s–1930s. Dunn wrote at a remarkable pace, producing dozens of novels and hundreds of shorter pieces, many now in the public domain and preserved as artifacts of early twentieth-century popular fiction.
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