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com.uk-Uk.woundary. That's audible.combe.ukeslondery. Welcome to Dunn and Dunn, the podcast All Things Dominic Dunn.

I'm Alicia, your host. And in this first episode, we are going to cover the author in his first act. Dominic Dunn has a

whole life, five and a half decades of a life, before he becomes a prolific writer of fiction

and true crime. How does Dominic get to that second act that we most remember him for. Let's investigate.

Dominant John Dunn was born October 29th, 1925.

Dominic is the second of six children in a well-to-do Irish Catholic family

that will live in a big gray stone house in the best part of town within the hamlet of Hartford,

Connecticut.

Even from the age of four, Dominic knows Hartford is not his scene, and he grows up never quite

feeling like he belongs.

Dominic's dad, Richard Edwin Dunn, is a big-time heart surgeon.

It's president of a hospital.

Dad is pioneering heart surgery innovations decades before heart transplants actually become a thing. That's kind of a big

deal and does very well by marrying Dorothy Francis Burns. Dorothy is from a very wealthy Irish Catholic

family. Dominic will describe her,

at least in Irish Catholic circles, as being considered a bit of an heiress. Irish Catholic girl,

early 20th century, how does she get to be considered a bit of an heiress? Dorothy's father,

Dominic Burns, was a potato famine

immigrant who comes to the United States when he's 14 years old and makes good, experiences the

American dream. Grandpa, Dominic, begins in the grocery store business as a teenager and ends up

transforming much like his grandson

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