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Kem Nunn


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The United States

Kem Nunn (born 1948) is an American fiction novelist, surfer, magazine and television writer from California. His novels have been described as "surf-noir" for their dark themes, political overtones and surf settings. He is the author of five novels, including his seminal surf novel Tapping the Source. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Irvine.

He has collaborated with producer David Milch on the HBO Western drama series Deadwood. Milch and Nunn co-created the HBO series John from Cincinnati, a surfing series set in Imperial Beach, California which premiered on June 10, 2007. He has also written for season 5 of Sons of Anarchy. ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 6,737 ratings · 709 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors
Tapping the Source
3.97 avg rating — 2,878 ratings — published 1984 — 48 editions
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The Dogs of Winter
4.03 avg rating — 1,147 ratings — published 1997 — 21 editions
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Chance
3.31 avg rating — 1,237 ratings — published 2014 — 22 editions
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Tijuana Straits
3.81 avg rating — 893 ratings — published 2004 — 15 editions
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Pomona Queen
3.84 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 1992 — 15 editions
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Unassigned Territory
3.50 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1987 — 8 editions
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Huntington Beach
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“If someone doesn’t care about himself, you begin to lose interest after a while.”
― Kem Nunn, Tapping the Source
tags: caring-for-others, losing-interest, self-care
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“Every man is on earth to symbolize something he is ignorant of.”
― Kem Nunn, Pomona Queen
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“But then her stubbornness was connected to her strength, he supposed, and her strength was one of the things about her that he most admired.”
― Kem Nunn, Tapping the Source
tags: admiration, strength, stubbornness
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