Author And Vanity Fair Correspondent Dominick Dunne Dies At 83
August 27th, 2009 - 6:09 pm ICT by GDBy Meena Kar
The best-selling author Dominick Dunne died at the age of 83, due to bladder cancer at his Manhattan home recently. His actor-cum-director son Griffin Dunne confirmed that his father had passed away. Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter put forward with some noteworthy words saying, “It is fair to say that the halls of Vanity Fair will be lonelier without him and that indeed, we will not see his like, if ever again.”
The man who was known for his intriguing persona wrote about crimes committed by the rich and the ordinary. Carter said he had an unforgettable charm, and was resplendent in his Turnbull and Asser shirt. He is the brother of John Gregory Dunne, the renowned screenwriter and author Joan Didion was Dominick’s sister in law.
William Kennedy Smith rape trial 1991, Clau Von Bulow, Erik and Lyle Menendez (who were facing allegations for having murdered their millionaire parents) 1993 and O.J. Simpson trials gained the Vanity Fair correspondent a good repute as a journalist. On Jose and Kitty Menendez’s murders he wrote his famous excerpt “Nightmare on Elmdrive”, and visited the scene of crime personally. He spent considerable part of his career in courtrooms recording pertinent details of nefarious cases.
In the 1980s he was acknowledged as the skillful chronicler of high-profile lifestyle and problematic complications of the wealthy.
Some of his works are “The Two Mrs. Grenvilles”, “An Inconvenient Woman”, “A Season In Purgatory”, “The Way We Lived Then: Recollections Of A Well Known Name Dropper”and “Fatal Charms”. His book “Too Much Money: A Novel” will soon be hitting stands when it is published in December.
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