Novelist, screenwriter John Dunne, 71, die
May 7th, 2004
John Gregory Dunne -- the novelist, essayist and screenwriter who, with his wife, Joan Didion, formed America's most celebrated literary couple -- suffered a heart attack and died Tuesday night in his New York apartment. He was 71.
"He was smart, edgy, talented and straight," the author David Halberstam, a longtime friend of Dunne's, told the Los Angeles Times. "He hated fraud and duplicity."
Dunne's best-known novel was "True Confessions" (1977), about a scandal in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles in the 1940s.
It sold a million copies and was later made into a 1981 film starring Robert DeNiro and Robert Duvall. Dunne and Didion wrote the screenplay.
Although Dunne and Didion wrote their books separately, their careers were long intertwined.
In addition to his wife and brother, Dunne leaves a daughter, Quintana Roo.
(Source: AP)
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