Background
The daughter of Sir Philip Dunn, she was born in London and educated at a convent, which she left at the age of fourteen.
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novelist playwright screenwriter
The daughter of Sir Philip Dunn, she was born in London and educated at a convent, which she left at the age of fourteen.
Early years
Although she came from an upper-class background, in 1959 she moved to Battersea and made friends in the neighbourhood and worked for a time in a sweets factory. This world inspired much of what Dunn would later write. Dunn was married to writer Jeremy Sandford from 1957 to 1979.
The couple had three sons.
Dunn came to notice with the publication of Up the Junction (1963), a series of short stories set in South London, some of which had already appeared in the New Statesman. The book, awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, was a controversial success at the time because of its vibrant, realistic and nonjudgmental portrait of the working class protagonists.
lieutenant was adapted for television by Dunn (and Ken Loach) for The Wednesday Play series which was directed by Ken Loach and broadcast in November 1965. A cinema film version was released in 1968.
A collection of interviews, Talking to Women (1965), preceded the publication of her first novel Poor Cow in 1967.
Poor Cow was made into a film starring Carol White and Terence Stamp, under Loach"s direction. Her later adult books are Grandmothers (1991) and My Silver Shoes (1996). Dunn"s play Steaming was produced in 1981 and a television film Every Breath You Take, was transmitted in 1987.
She has also written Sisters, a film script commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Personal life.
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