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Born: 10/31/1924  Duluth
Died: 03/04/2005
Parents: Arthur S. and Julia H. Dunning
Spouse: Florence Jane Danielson
Children: Steven, Elizabeth, Julia, Sarah
Address(es):
Last known address:
Ann Arbor, Pittsfield Twp., MI

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Hunter's Park: Thirteen Stories by Stephen Dunning	Fiction, Short Stories	Adult	Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Samuel Russell	1996
	Good Words	Poetry	Adult	Greensboro, NC: March Street Press	1992
	Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises - Written for those who want to write poems but are not sure how to start, this book presents 20 short exercises plus short pieces ("written talk") about poetry. The exercises in the book are designed to be completed in about 10 weeks. The types of poems in the 20 exercises include "found" and "headline" poems (which are inspired by ordinary prose), letter poems, acrostic and recipe poems, "dream-writes," list poems, pantoums, imitation poems, memory maps, question/answer poems, syllable count poems, dialogue poems, confession poems, and monologue poems. co-author:William Stafford	Non Fiction, Poetry	Adult, Teen	National Council of Teachers of English	1992
	To The Beautiful Women: nine stories	Fiction, Short Stories	Adult	Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Samuel Russell	1991
	Contemporary Michigan Poetry: Poems from the Third Coast - Included in anthology	Michigan, Poetry	Adult	Detroit: Wayne State University Press	1988
	Menominee - Chapbook	Poetry	Adult	East Lansing [Mich.] : Years Press	1987
	Do You Fear No One	Poetry	Adult	San Francisco : Pancake Press	1982
	Walking Home Dead : poems	Poetry	Adult	Madison, N.J. : Stone Country Press	1981
	Handfuls of Us - Croissant pamphlets ; no. 13	Poetry	Adult	Athens, Ohio : Croissant and Co	1980
	Dreams	Poetry	Adult, Teen	New York: Scholastic Book Services	1978
	Literature for Adolescents: Teaching Poems, Stories, Novels, and Plays - With Alan B. Howes	Non Fiction	Adult, Teen	Glenview, Ill. : Scott, Foresman	1975
	Poetry II - With Joe Eaton and Malcolm Glass Also titled: For poets	Poetry	Teen	New York : Scholastic Book Services	1974
	Possibilities : a collection of short stories - With Lahna Diskin and Henry Maloney	Non Fiction, Short Stories	Adult, Teen	New York : Scholastic Book Services	1973
	A Collection of prose and poetry on the theme of small world - With Robert Smith and Jane Sprague	Fiction, Non Fiction, Poetry	Adult, Teen	New York: Scholastic Book Services	1973
	A superboy, supergirl anthology : selected chapters from the earlier works of Victor Appleton, Franklin W. Dixon, and Carolyn Keene - Compiled by Stephen Dunning and Henry B. Maloney.	Fiction, Non Fiction, Poetry	Teen	New York: Scholastic Book Services	1971
	Mad, sad & glad: poems from Scholastic Creative Writing Awards	Poetry	Children, Teen	New York: Scholastic Book Services	1970
	English for the Junior High Years; papers from the 1968 spring institutes on the junior high school.	Non Fiction	Adult	Champaign, Ill.,National Council of Teachers of English	1969
	Some Haystacks Don't Even Have Any Needle, and Other Complete Modern Poems - compiled by Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders [and] Hugh Smith.	Poetry	Teen	New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.	1969
	Teaching Literature to Adolescents: Short Stories	Non Fiction, Short Stories	Adult, Teen	Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman	1968
	Who I Am	Fiction	Adult	New York: Scholastic Book Services	1967
	Teaching Literature to Adolescents: Poetry	Non Fiction	Adult	Glenview, Ill: Scott, Foresman	1966
	Reflections On A Gift of Watermelon Pickle, and Other Modern Verse - Anthology of modern poems chosen for their individual excellence and their special appeal to young people co-edited with Edward Lueders, Hugh Smith. Editorial direction, Leo Kneer. Development, Nora Rotzoll	Poetry	Teen	Scott, Foresman	1966
	A Collection of Prose and Poetry on the Theme of Frontiers - With Carol Lee Rebublished 1971 as Frontiers of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow in Prose and Poetry	Fiction, Non Fiction, Poetry	Teen	New York: Scholastic Book Services	1961
	Stories, articles, and poems on the challenging theme of courage - With Dwight L. Burton Cover title: Courage	Fiction, Non Fiction, Poetry	Adult, Teen	New York: Scholastic Book Services	1959-1975
	Other writings: - Wrote, edited, co-edited about fifteen texts for junior and senior high school students		Adult, Teen

What is the aim or goal of your writing: I'm trying to discover my meanings by writing stories and poems. I trust memory and imagination equally. 2nd ed. says, "What advice would you give aspiring writers? First, of course, read. Think and talk about what you read. Next, Practice. Practice! Regular routines work for many writers--rising early to write; or putting in so much time a day. Some days I start off by copying (or copy-changing) a poem that has in it some quality I want to practice. I also trick myself--put my attention on something like form or rhyme in order to free my un-self-conscious self. I believe in practicing, and in re-writing; I believe in 'the luck' that sometimes comes with practice and re-write. Poetry seems close to journal-keeping, or personal writing. Stories and essays seem written more for others, but poetry is more for oneself. I write mainly for myself, anyway. Friends who matter most to me now are writing friends."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

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Wrote under the name of Stephen Dunning.

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