John Gregory Dunne

John Gregory Dunne (25 May 1932 - 30 December 2003) was an American novelist, screenwriter and literary critic.

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He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and was a younger brother of author Dominick Dunne. He suffered from a severe stutter and took up writing to express himself: eventually he learned to speak normally by observing others. He graduated from Princeton University in 1954 and worked as a journalist for Time magazine. He married novelist Joan Didion on 30 January 1964, and they became collaborators on a series of screenplays, including A Star Is Born (1976) and True Confessions (1981), an adaptation of his own novel. He is the author of two non-fiction books about Hollywood, The Studio and Monster.

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As a literary critic and essayist, he was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. His essays were collected in two books, Quintana & Friends and Crooning.

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He wrote several novels, among them True Confessions, based loosely on the Black Dahlia murder, and Dutch Shea, Jr..

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He died in Manhattan of a heart attack. His final novel, Nothing Lost, which was in galleys at the time of his death, was published in 2004.

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He was uncle to actors Griffin Dunne and Dominique Dunne.

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