Major Works
Novels
True Confessions (1977)
Dutch Shea, Jr. (1982)
The Red White and Blue (1987)
Playland (1994)
Nothing Lost (2004)
Non-fiction
Delano: The Story of the California Grape Strike (1967)
The Studio (1969)
Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season (1974)
Quintana and Friends (1978)
Harp (1989)
Crooning: A Collection (1990)
Monster: Living Off the Big Screen (1997)
Regards: The Selected Nonfiction of John Gregory Dunne (2005)
Screenplays
The Panic in Needle Park (1971), Al Pacino’s first starring role
Play It as It Lays (1972), starring Tuesday Weld
A Star Is Born (1976), starring Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson
True Confessions (1981), starring Robert Duval and Robert De Niro
Up Close & Personal (1996), starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer
Biographical and Critical Sources
Didion, Joan. 2005. The Year of Magical Thinking. Vintage / Random House.
Dunne, Dominick. “A Death in the Family,” Vanity Fair, Sept 18, 2008
Dunne, Griffin (dir.). Joan Didion: The Center Will not Hold. Netflix.\, Oct 11, 2017.
Dunne, John Gregory. 1989. Harp. Simon and Schuster.
–. Monster: Living off the Big Screen. 1997. Random House
–. True Confessions. 1977. Thundermouth Press.
Keane, James T. “John Gregory Dunne, the ‘Irish brawler’ who explored the nation’s soul.” The Catholic Book Club: The Jesuit Review, July 9, 2024.
McNally, Owen. “Review of Nothing Lost,” Hartford Courant, May 16, 2004.
Szanton, Andrew. “John Gregory Dunne: A Writer Brooding on His Irishness.” Sept. 1, 2021. https://medium.com/@andrewszanton/john-gregory-dunne-a-writer-brooding-on-his-irishness-838c5d6c77c1