Quintana Roo Michael

Quintana Roo Michael was the adopted daughter of John Dunne and Joan Didion. Quintana was a photographer and photo editor.

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• Quintana M Dunne in the California Birth Index, 1905-1995 AncestryImage Name: Quintana M Dunne Birth Date: 3 Mar 1966 Gender: Female Mother's Maiden Name: Didion Birth County: Los Angeles
• Quintana Roo Dunne in the New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018 AncestryImage Name: Quintana Roo Dunne Marriage License Date: 26 Jul 2003 Marriage License Place: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA Spouse: Gerald Brian Michael License Number: 9316
• Quintana Roo Dunne Michael, 39; Daughter of Joan Didion, J.G. Dunne L.A. TIMES ARCHIVES SEPT. 3, 2005 12 AM PT FROM TIMES STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS link Quintana Roo Dunne Michael, 39, the daughter of writers Joan Didion and the late John Gregory Dunne, died Aug. 26 at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital. She had been hospitalized since June with abdominal infections, according to her mother. Michael, a photographer and photo editor, was born in Santa Monica and adopted at birth by Didion and Dunne. She graduated from Barnard College. She and her musician husband, Gerry Michael of Manhattan, had no children. In December 2003, Dunne suffered a heart attack and died after he and his wife visited their daughter in the hospital, where she was in intensive care. Her latest hospitalization began June 14.
• “SURVIVING THE DARKNESS.” A fortune-teller the author consulted as a young soldier was right on the money: his 80th birthday brings a mix of gratitude for his current life and grief over losing his niece Quintana. Meanwhile, a courthouse conversation with Robert Blake evokes memories of Truman Capote and battling demons. BY DOMINICK DUNNE. DECEMBER 2005. Vanity Fair. link “The memorial service at St. Vincent Ferrer, on Lexington Avenue at 66th Street, conducted by a family friend, Father Daniel Morrissey of the Dominican Order, was beautiful. That night the Didion family, the Dunne family, and the Michael family all had dinner at Joan’s. It was one of those occasions where you see and talk to relations you don’t otherwise see very often, and amazing family histories come out. I am one of four brothers. Three of us lost children. So many memories of my daughter filled my mind on the day of Quintana’s service. I went to my house in Connecticut early the next morning. It was a cold, rainy weekend, and I stayed inside. I didn’t see a soul. It was a time for mourning.”
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39563349/quintana-roo-michael
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Nights Blue Nights is a memoir written by American author Joan Didion, first published in 2011. The memoir is an account of the death of Didion's daughter, Quintana, who died in 2005 at age 39.
• Didion, Joan (2012). Blue Nights. New York City, NY: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 9780307387387.