John Gregory Dunne ’54
John Gregory Dunne died Dec. 30, 2003, of a heart attack.
Born in Hartford, Conn., he graduated from Portsmouth Priory School. At Princeton, he majored in history and worked on numerous campus committees and sports.
After graduation, he won a Vogue magazine scholarship while studying at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as a staff writer for Time magazine. On Jan. 30, 1964, he married Joan Didion. They became collaborators on a series of screenplays. John was a literary critic for The New York Review of Books, and authored two books of essays as well as numerous other titles. His final novel, Nothing Lost, was in galleys at the time of his death.
The class extends its sympathy to Joan, who published The Year of Magical Thinking in October 2005, a memoir of the year following John's death. Their only child, Quintana, died in August 2005.
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