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On December 25, 2003, Quintana Dunne, the twenty-five-year-old daughter of the novelist and essayist Joan Didion, was admitted into a New York hospital with an infection that sent her into life-threatening septic shock. Five days later, soon after returning from visiting Quintana at the intensive-care unit, Didion’s seventy-year-old husband, the novelist John Gregory Dunne, collapsed at the dinner table and died, most likely instantaneously. The two had been married for 40 years. The death came as a complete shock to Didion—although it soon emerged that Dunne had been aware of the deteriorated condition of his main coronary artery for years.

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