John M. Dunn is a working freelance writer and a veteran high school history teacher. He has taught in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and Germany. As a writer and journalist, he has published over 400 articles for more than twenty periodicals, such as Florida Trend, Business Florida, Europe, Sierra, Off Duty, New Shelter, and the St. Petersburg Times. In addition, he has written numerous scripts for audiovisual productions and a children’s play. His young adult books, The Russian Revolution, the Relocation of the North American Indian, the Spread of Islam, Advertising, the Civil Rights Movement, The Enlightenment, Life During the Black Death, The Vietnam War: A History of U.S. Involvement, the Computer Revolution, the French Revolution, the Fall of the Monarch, Castro’s Cuba, and most recently, The Constitution and of Founding of America, were published by Lucent Press (Thomson/Gale.) Dunn has also edited Union Soldiers, Confederate Soldiers, Southerners, and Northerners, which are part of Voices of the Civil War series for juvenile readers, published by Blackbirch Press.
The New York Public Library recognized the first edition of Dunn’s book on the removal of North America Indians in its Books for the Teenage List and the second edition received a stared review from the School Library Journal in May 2006. The Pennsylvania State Library Association included Dunn’s book on computers in its “Young Adult Top Forty Nonfiction 2002 Titles.” In addition, The Barahoma Center of California State University San Marcos features his book on Castro in its list of “Recommended Books in English about Latinos.” He has also been profiled in Something About the Author.”