Dominick Dunne (1925-2009) was born in Hartford, Connecticut, into an Irish and Catholic family. After fighting in World War II he worked in television, first in New York and then in Hollywood, where he would rub shoulders with the biggest stars of the 1950s and 1960s and become a film producer. At the end of the seventies his addictions led him to leave the world of cinema and write his first book. His first success as a writer was in 1985 with the publication of the novel The Two Mrs. Grenville, a success that would increase five years later with An Inopportune Woman (1990). Although his true fame came as a society commentator on Vanity Fair and chronicler of some of the most famous trials in the United States, such as that of American football star O. J. Simpson. His long relationship with Vanity Fair began when the magazine invited him to present his reflections on the murder of his daughter, which later led him to start a column in which gossip about high society and exclusives about controversial trials were mixed. judicial. Among his literary works, the novels also stand out: People Like Us (1988) and A Season in Purgatory (1993).