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John Gregory Dunne

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born

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

died

December 30, 2003

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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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.

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Books by John Gregory Dunne

Average rating: 3.63 · 587 ratings · 95 reviews · 23 distinct works

	True Confessions: A Novel by John Gregory Dunne, George Pelecanos (Introduction), George P. Pelecanos (Introduction) 3.73 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Monster: Living Off the Big Screen 3.45 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Nothing Lost 3.37 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Studio 3.73 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1969 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Dutch Shea, JR. 3.59 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1982	My rating:
	Regards: The Selected Nonfiction by John Gregory Dunne, Calvin Trillin (Foreword by) 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Harp 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Vegas: A Memoir Of A Dark Season 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Playland 3.19 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Red, White and Blue 3.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by John Gregory Dunne

“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”
― John Gregory Dunne

tags: writing

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“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

tags: new-york-city