Background
Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America, his father disappeared and his mother Chrystal was left to bring him up alone.
Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America, his father disappeared and his mother Chrystal was left to bring him up alone.
Needing to work, she gave him to the couple who had brought her up as an orphan. There he became a Lieutenant of police in the British sector of the city (at that time divided between the United States of America, France, Britain and Japan). When the Japanese invaded China and Shanghai he remained in his post as a non-combatant until 1941 when the United States of America entered the war.
He was then interned in Lunghua prison camp where he became the representative of the prison population.
He spent four years as a Prisoner of War. After the Japanese surrender he received the sword of the camp commandant.
He worked for the United States intelligence agency Office of Strategic Services.
In 1949, with the victory of the Communists under Mao Zedong, the family, now with one child, were obliged to leave China and arrived in the United States of America with nothing. After a succession of jobs, Dunning"s second child was born in Connersville, Indiana and the family finally moved to Saint St. Petersburg, Florida.
There Dunning became a boat builder and entrepreneur but fell foul of the Internal Revenue Service and left the United States of America for ever in 1959.
The family settled in Heidelberg, Germany. He then became a journalist for a local English language news sheet in Heidelberg and then an author In 1966 he moved to Paris and then to Luxembourg in 1972.
Dunning became an established author in the True Crime genre and many used an cases in his contributes to many articles to American True Crime magazines.
Dunning held strong views on crimes against children and frequently advocated the death penalty for such criminals in the forewords of his books His taking of Luxembourg nationality make him, by far, Luxembourg"s most prolific author
A third grandchild was born in 1991.