Joan Hunter Dunn beauty, he fell in love, and composed a 44-line poem fantasising about them being engaged and playing tennis together in Aldershot: The poem was published in Cyril Connolly's "Horizon" magazine in February 1941. Betjeman invited her to lunch, and presented her with a copy of the magazine containing the poem, begging her forgiveness. In an interview in "The Sunday Times" magazine in 1965, illustrated with photographs by Lord Snowdon, she said: "It was such a marvellous break from the monotony of the war. It really was remarkable the way he imagined it all. Actually, all that about the subaltern, and
J. Allan Dunn came to the United States in 1893. He spent about five years in Colorado, five years in Honolulu, ten years in San Francisco, and then relocated to the East Coast in 1914, after which his writing career blossomed. From 1914 forward, and in his pulp-writing career, he was known as "J. Allan Dunn"; before that he primarily went by "Allan Dunn." While living in San Francisco, he worked for the Southern Pacific Company, which published "Sunset" magazine. He wrote an article for "Sunset" on author Jack London. The two became friends. In 1913, Dunn was a frequent visitor to London's