John Gregory Dunne

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John Gregory Dunne


Born
in Hartford, Connecticut, The United States
May 25, 1932

Died
December 30, 2003

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John Gregory Dunne was an American novelist, screenwriter and literary critic.

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 Panic in Needle Park (1971), 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.

As a literary critic and essayist, he wa
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True Confessions

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3.81 avg rating — 709 ratings — published 1977 — 39 editions
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The Studio

3.82 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 1969 — 24 editions
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Monster

3.62 avg rating — 383 ratings — published 1997 — 13 editions
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Nothing Lost

3.47 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions
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Vegas: A Memoir Of A Dark S...

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Dutch Shea, Jr.

3.63 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1982 — 11 editions
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Playland

3.40 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1994 — 15 editions
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Harp

3.66 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1989 — 9 editions
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The Red White and Blue

3.48 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1987 — 19 editions
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“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”
John Gregory Dunne

“New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East”
John Gregory Dunne

“Hollywood is a technological crapshoot. Table stakes open at a million dollars. It was true in 1968, it is true now.”
John Gregory Dunne

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