This “Boswell of the bluebloods” was a writer whose tips came from unnamed sources and “waiter[s] serving [him] risotto at dinner parties”. Though Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. disparagingly described him a “gossip columnist” and he had to pay undisclosed damages to a Californian Congressman named Gary Condit in 2005, Dunne’s Vanity Fair columns were the stuff of legends. Dominick Dunne was as much of a personality as his subjects and we’re unlikely to see a journalist as remarkable as this gent again.

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The Roll Call - WRITERS

1

Susie Steiner

2

Michael Russell (1933 – 2020)

3

Jackie Collins OBE (born Jacqueline Collins, 1937 – 2015)

4

Ann Barr (1929 – 2015)

5

Malcolm Gladwell

6

Merlin Holland

7

Josie Goodbody

8

Jeanette Winterson OBE

9

Anna Smith

10

Erika Leonard James (E. L. James)

11

Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982; AKA Richard Phillipps and Jack Dowland)

12

Mary Berry CBE

13

Seamus Heaney (1939 – 2013)

14

Katherine “Kate” Mosse OBE

15

Anne Dunhill

16

John Armstrong

17

Derek Blasberg

18

Alex Preston

19

Dominick Dunne (1925 – 2009)

20

Pippa Middleton

21

Richard Mason

22

Arthur Ransome (1864 – 1967)

23

Susan Hill CBE

24

Helena Matheopolous

25

Steven Berkoff

26

Aita Ighodaro

27

Julian Fellowes (The Lord Fellowes of West Stafford DL, also known as Julian Kitchener-Fellowes)

28

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