When a young Susanna Moore arrived at Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne’s home to house-sit, she did not expect to stay long. Then they returned. She stayed.
IN 1968, Connie Wald, a Beverly Hills hostess who befriended me when I first arrived in Los Angeles, introduced me to John Gregory and Joan Dunne at one of her dinner parties. That was the beginning of my long friendship with them. Although some of the same people whom I met at Connie’s dinners would also be at the Dunnes’ parties, the mood was less predictable and less conservative. I no longer had to pretend to be fascinated, and I could talk about the Vietnam War as much as I liked.
Joan asked me to stay in the Franklin Avenue house as she and John were going to Hawaii. I’d been uneasy living in the Hollywood Hills, with their intimation of menace, and I was happy to have a place to live, at least for a little while, where I would not feel ill at ease. I moved into an upstairs bedroom crowded with file boxes and neat piles of personal papers, research, and manuscripts.
JOAN WAS AS FASTIDIOUS, as particular in her domestic life, as she was in her writing, all effort concealed, not through any devious design but because she was by nature secretive. She made certain domestic decisions very quickly. Artichoke vinaigrette. An orange-and-endive salad. Mexican chicken—she was particularly irritated when Nora Ephron pestered her for the recipe—and for dessert, big strawberries with their stems, eaten with brown sugar and sour cream.
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