DUNNE, FINLEY PETER (1867-1936), American jour nalist and humorist of Irish descent, was born in Chicago, Illi nois, July io, 1867, and educated in the public schools. In 1885 he became a newspaper reporter. Later he was a member of the editorial staff of the Chicago Evening Post, and of the Chicago Times-Herald (1892-97), and editor of the Chicago Journal (1897-190o).
For several years he contributed humorous sketches in Irish brogue to the daily papers, but he did not come into prominence until he wrote for the Chicago Journal a series of satirical obser vations and reflections on social and political topics of the day, attributed to an honest lrish-American, Martin Dooley, the shrewd philosopher of Archey road. They were widely copied by the press of America and England.
The first published collection, Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War (1898), was followed by several others, similar in subject matter and in method, including Mr. Dooley's Philosophy (1900), Obser vations by Mr. Dooley (1902), and Mr. Dooley Says (191o). These books made their author famous as the creator of a delight fully original character and as a humorist of shrewd insight.