In 1969 Young planned a film called The Todd Dossier, based on a story by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne and novelised by Robert Bloch.
He was the author of a further non-fiction book about Hollywood, Monster: Living Off the Big Screen.
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His wife, Joan Didion, published The Year of Magical Thinking in October 2005 to critical acclaim, a memoir of the year following his death, during which their daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, was seriously ill.
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He met Joan Didion in New York in the 1950s, where she was an editor at Vogue.
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He was father to Quintana Roo Dunne, who died in 2005 after a series of illnesses, and uncle to actors Griffin Dunne (who co-starred in An American Werewolf in London) and Dominique Dunne (who co-starred in Poltergeist).
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