JOAN Didion was an American writer who launched her career in the 1960s after winning an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine.
Joan Didion died on December 23, 2021 nearly two decades after her husband.
Who was Joan Didion's husband?
John Gregory Dunne was married to Joan Didion for 40 years before he died on December 30, 2003.
He was the son of Dorothy Frances and Richard Edwin Dunne.
Dunne was born on May 25, 1932 in Hartford, Connecticut making him 71-years-old at the time of his death.
The couple married in the year 1964, they met in New York City while working.
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What career did John have?
Dunne was also an American author like his late wife.
According to the New York Times he had worked at Time magazine for five years.
"Mr. Dunne remained at Time for five years and liked journalism, but decided he did not want to do it the way most journalists did," the article said.
Some of his book titles included the following:
- Monster: Living Off the Big Screen (1997)
- Playland (1994)
- Nothing Lost (2004)
- The Studio (1969)
''A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material,'' Dunne once wrote. ''Resentment sharpens his eye, hostility hones his killer instinct.''
What work did the couple do together?
As they were both writers, Didion and Dunne often collaborated together.
In 1967 they used Los Angeles as home base for their work when they wrote the column called Points West for The Saturday Evening Post.
His wife's work was noted seriously prior to Dunne's especially after the release of her essays ''Slouching Toward Bethlehem'' (Farrar, Straus, 1968).
The husband and wife worked on a screenplay together as well, Panic in Needle Park, based on James Mill's nonfiction book.
On January 1, 2004 just after Dunne's death the New York Times published an obituary of the writer.
Richard Severo wrote that Dunne believed not much should be said about a writer after he has died.
"I agree with William Faulkner,'' Dunne commented, ''who once said that a writer's obituary should read, 'He wrote books, then he died.'"
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