DOMINICK DUNNE - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 214113

DOMINICK DUNNE
Small black and white publicity photograph of Dominick Dunne sitting in a wicker chair wearing a suit and tie advertising his novel A Season in Purgatory.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "For Lillie Blanchard/Best Wishes/Dominick Dunne". B/w, 7x5 overall, image 6¼x3½ (one surface). Publicity photo captioned at lower margin for Dunne's novel A Season in Purgatory by Crown Publishers (1993). Photo credit: Ellen Warner. Dunne (1925-2009),who had a swift rise and fall as a Hollywood producer in the 1970s, overcame drug and alcohol addictions to emerge as a successful fiction and nonfiction writer in the 1980s, documenting the crimes and lifestyles of rich and famous families. After publishing an account of the trial of his own daughter's murderer in Vanity Fair magazine (1984), he went on to cover such cases as O.J. Simpson, Klaus Von Bulow and Michael Skakel. He turned his reportage of big money and high crime turned into a rich business, including a column (Dominick Dunne's Diary), a TV series (Court TV's Power, Privilege and Justice) and several thinly fictionalized novels of real crimes, including The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1985), A Season in Purgatory (1993), and Another City, Not My Own (1997). Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in an impassioned article in the February 2003 edition of the Atlantic Monthly, blamed Dunne for accusations that led to his cousin Skakel's indictment for the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley; Skakel was convicted of the murder in 2001. Fine condition.