John Gregory Dunne (1932-2003), the late husband of Joan Didion, whose sudden death was the subject of her prize-winning book The Year of Magical Thinking, was a novelist, screenwriter, and literary critic. With Didion, he collaborated on a number of screenplays, including The Panic in Needlepark and True Confessions, based on his novel of the same name. He also wrote a number of novels and nonfiction books and contributed articles to The New York Review of Books.
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