Tony Dunbar

Tony Dunbar is an American novelist from Atlanta best known for writing the Tubby Dubonnet series of detective crime fiction novels. He has always known he wanted to be a writer from a very young age, and would tell people that he would be a professional writer from the time he was 12. But it was not until he turned 19 that he published “Our Land Too” his first ever novel, that was a reflection of his experiences of the civil rights movement in his home town in the Mississippi Delta. He credits his early interest in writing to the reading of mystery novels by American authors such as Mickey Spillane, John D. MacDonald, Tony Hillerman, and Dashiell Hammett of the Maltese Falcon. The Nero Wolfe mystery series were also some of his favorite novels, which he would voraciously read when his peers were watching television or riding their bikes.