Winifred Dunn (c. 1898 - 1977) was an American screenwriter, editor, radio scenario writer, and art critic in the early 20th century.

[3] She moved out to Chicago, Illinois, at a young age,[4] starting a career that would lead her to be one of the youngest scenario editors in the film industry.

[1] At the age of 18, Winifred Dunn wrote her first film, Too Late, which launched her formal writing career with the production company Selig Polyscope.

[5] It was there that her 1922 production of Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922) was edited and titled, and also where she wrote a screen adaptation of Your Friend and Mine (1923) by Willard Mack.

"[1] A 1924 story in The Los Angeles Times quotes Dunn encouraging other writers to read many newspapers in order to "keep a metaphorical finger on the pulse of life everywhere.

[11] Based on the Thomas Burke book Twinkletoes: A Tale of the Limehouse, Dunn had to dig deep into her creative mind to create a film story that fit Moore, while staying relatively true to the original narrative.

[15] Contrary to popular norms of the time, Dunn did not let her marriage stop her career and continued to work as a freelance writer.