BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- U.S. author and journalist Dominick Dunne, who covered the trials of celebrity defendants and wrote frequently on the intersection of high society, died Wednesday at the age of 83 in Manhattan after a battle with bladder cancer.
During his decades-long career, Dunne became something of a journalistic-literary enigma in the nation, whose persona bristled with righteous indignation.
Dunne profiled numerous personalities, among them Imelda Marcos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von B¨¹low, Adnan Khashoggi, and Warren Beatty and Annette Bening.
Dunne was born in 1925 in Hartford, Conn., to a wealthy Irish Catholic family. He served in the Army during World War II, winning the Bronze Star for heroism in 1944 after carrying two wounded men to safety at the Battle of Merz, in Feisberg, Germany.
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." His last book, "Too Much Money: A Novel," is scheduled for publication in December.
Dunne's death fell on the same day as U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's.
(Agencies)
