Thaindian News

By Samrat Banerjee

Aug 27 (IBNS) Facts are sometimes stranger than fiction!

Dominick Dunne (1925 – 2009), famous as author and journalist, once served in the Army during World War II, winning the Bronze Star for heroism in 1944 after carrying two wounded men to safety at the Battle of Merz, in Feisberg, Germany.

Dunne is at peace after fighting a lost battle with bladder cancer. His suffering is over. He was 83. He passed away Wednesday in Manhattan, according to his son, actor-producer Griffin Dunne.

Dunne, brother of author John Gregory Dunne and brother-in-law of Joan Didion, was born in 1925 in Hartford, Conn., to a wealthy Irish Catholic family. He served in the Army during World War II, winning the Bronze Star for heroism in 1944 after carrying two wounded men to safety at the Battle of Merz, in Feisberg, Germany.

He later wrote, “Winning a medal was the only thing I can ever remember doing that won any admiration from my father.” He graduated from Williams College in 1949.Dunne was a novelist, a film producer, a TV executive and amateur prosecutor - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Skakel’s cousin, told New York magazine in 1993 that Dunne was a “pathetic creature” and had persecuted Skakel for his own aggrandizement.