A renowned Novelist, memoir Writer, and literary Journalist, she is best known for her sociologically-themed works that explore the unraveling of American culture and morality. Her best known works include Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), Play It As It Lays (1970), Where I Was From (2003), and The Year of Magical Thinking (2005).
She was raised in Sacramento, California and began writing at the age of five. She graduated from the University of California-Berkeley with a degree in English and subsequently worked as an associate feature Editor at Vogue Magazine.
She contributed ideals and writing to the New Journalism movement and was a recipient of both the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the National Medal of Arts and Humanities.
Her marriage to Times Writer
She was encouraged greatly in her writing by her husband and fellow Writer, John Gregory Dunne.
