{"id":524,"date":"2025-12-20T15:13:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=524"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:30:53","slug":"john-gregory-dunne-major-works-and-biographical-and-critical-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"John Gregory Dunne – Major Works and Biographical and Critical Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"
Major Works<\/h5>\n
Novels<\/h6>\n

True Confessions<\/em>\u202f(1977)<\/p>\n

Dutch Shea, Jr.<\/em>\u202f(1982)<\/p>\n

The Red White and Blue<\/em>\u202f(1987)<\/p>\n

Playland<\/em>\u202f(1994)<\/p>\n

Nothing Lost<\/em>\u202f(2004)<\/p>\n

Non-fiction<\/h6>\n

Delano: The Story of the California Grape Strike<\/em>\u202f(1967)<\/p>\n

The Studio\u202f<\/em>(1969)<\/p>\n

Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season<\/em>\u202f(1974)<\/p>\n

Quintana and Friends<\/em>\u202f(1978)<\/p>\n

Harp<\/em>\u202f(1989)<\/p>\n

Crooning: A Collection<\/em>\u202f(1990)<\/p>\n

Monster: Living Off the Big Screen<\/em>\u202f(1997)<\/p>\n

Regards: The Selected Nonfiction of John Gregory Dunne<\/em>\u202f(2005)<\/p>\n

Screenplays<\/h6>\n

The Panic in Needle Park<\/em>\u202f(1971),\u00a0 Al Pacino\u2019s first starring role<\/p>\n

Play It as It Lays<\/em>\u202f(1972), starring Tuesday Weld<\/p>\n

A Star Is Born<\/em>\u202f(1976), starring Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson<\/p>\n

True Confessions<\/em>\u202f(1981), starring Robert Duval and Robert De Niro<\/p>\n

Up Close & Personal<\/em>\u202f(1996), starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer<\/p>\n

Biographical and Critical Sources<\/h5>\n

Didion, Joan.\u00a02005.\u00a0The Year of Magical Thinking<\/em>.\u00a0Vintage\u00a0\/\u00a0Random House.<\/p>\n

Dunne, Dominick. \u201cA Death in the Family,\u201d\u00a0 Vanity Fair<\/em>, Sept 18, 2008<\/p>\n

Dunne, Griffin (dir.). Joan Didion: The Center Will not Hold<\/em>. Netflix.\\, Oct 11, 2017.<\/p>\n

Dunne, John Gregory. 1989.\u00a0Harp<\/em>. Simon and Schuster.<\/p>\n

–. Monster: Living off the Big Screen<\/em>. 1997. Random House<\/p>\n

–. True Confessions<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a01977.\u00a0Thundermouth\u00a0Press.<\/p>\n

Keane, James T. \u201cJohn Gregory Dunne, the \u2018Irish brawler\u2019 who explored the nation\u2019s soul.\u201d The Catholic Book Club: The Jesuit Review<\/em>, July 9, 2024.<\/p>\n

McNally, Owen. \u201cReview of Nothing Lost,\u201d Hartford Courant<\/em>, May 16, 2004.<\/p>\n

Szanton, Andrew. \u201cJohn Gregory Dunne: A Writer Brooding on His Irishness.\u201d Sept. 1, 2021. https:\/\/medium.com\/@andrewszanton\/john-gregory-dunne-a-writer-brooding-on-his-irishness-838c5d6c77c1<\/p>\n

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Major Works Novels True Confessions\u202f(1977) Dutch Shea, Jr.\u202f(1982) The Red White and Blue\u202f(1987) Playland\u202f(1994) Nothing Lost\u202f(2004) Non-fiction Delano: The Story of the California Grape Strike\u202f(1967) The Studio\u202f(1969) Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season\u202f(1974) Quintana and Friends\u202f(1978) Harp\u202f(1989) Crooning: A Collection\u202f(1990) Monster: Living Off the Big Screen\u202f(1997) Regards: The Selected Nonfiction of John Gregory Dunne\u202f(2005) … Continue reading John Gregory Dunne – Major Works and Biographical and Critical Sources<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-gregory-dunne"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}