Pool photo by Daniel Gluskoter Dominck Dunne in a Las Vegas courtroom attending the 2008 trial of O. J. Simpson.Obituary: Dominick Dunne, Chronicler of Crime, Dies at 83
Updated | 8:11 a.m. Dominick Dunne, the author and journalist who covered the trials of celebrity defendants like Claus von Bülow, O. J. Simpson and William Kennedy Smith, and wrote frequently on the intersection of high crimes and high society, has died. He was 83. His son Griffin Dunne told the Web site of Vanity Fair, where Mr. Dunne was a special correspondent, that he died of bladder cancer at his home in Manhattan.
His books include the best-selling novels “The Two Mrs. Grenvilles,” “An Inconvenient Woman” and “A Season in Purgatory,” as well as the essay collection “Fatal Charms” and the memoir “The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper.” Vanity Fair said that his last book, “Too Much Money: A Novel,” is scheduled for publication in December.
In a statement, Tina Constable, the publisher of Crown Books, which released Mr. Dunne’s books, said: “Crown has lost a great storyteller, chronicler, and friend in Dominick Dunne, with whom we enjoyed a more than twenty-five year association that included five best-selling novels, two collections of essays, and a memoir. He was so excited about his forthcoming book and we are deeply saddened that he did not live to enjoy its publication. At the time Dominick died, the manuscript was in the final stages of editing, and is currently scheduled to come out in December.”
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