biography
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Dunne, Finley Peter
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| lived:
| (1867–1936)
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| biography:
| Journalist and humorist, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. As a Chicago journalist he created the fictional Mr Dooley (1892), a garrulous Irish bar keeper whose rogue commentaries on current events were nationally syndicated and reprinted in eight volumes (1898–1919). He moved to New York (1900) and was associated with Collier's, American Magazine and the socialist Metropolitan, before retiring in 1927. |
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