Dominick Dunne

Novelist and journalist Dominick Dunne wrote fiction and nonfiction about the rich, famous and corrupt. He covered the O. J. Simpson trial for Vanity Fair

Journalist, novelist. Born October 29, 1925 in Hartford, Connecticut, the line between the personal and professional lives of Dominick Dunne was often blurred. Erudite and wealthy himself, the writer chronicled the misfortunes and criminal acts of his peers within privileged America. His fiction dissected the rich, the famous and the corrupt, while his nonfiction dealt with the trials of such figures as Claus Von Bulow, William Kennedy Smith and the Menendez brothers. Dunne even reported on the trial of John Sweeney, the man who murdered Dunnes daughter, Dominique. But few assignments brought him so much national attention as the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial.