Only Mark Dunn, author of the acclaimed ella minnow pea, would attempt to write a novel entirely in footnotes-and succeed so triumphantly. Ibid is the off-the-wall fictional biography of jonathan Blashette, a three-legge...Only Mark Dunn, author of the acclaimed ella minnow pea, would attempt to write a novel entirely in footnotes-and succeed so triumphantly. Ibid is the off-the-wall fictional biography of jonathan Blashette, a three-legged circus performer and deodorant entrepreneur. Dunn, a character in his own novel, Is Blashette's esteemed biographer.