Later Life
She maintained a home in London until 1986, and then moved to Los Angeles to be near her daughter, Tracy, by then a costume designer and director married to Jim McBride. Dundy published her autobiography, Life Itself!, in 2001. Her 1964 novel, The Old Man and Me, was reissued in 2005 by the feminist publishing company Virago Press, and that same year, she wrote the introduction for Virago's reprint of Daphne du Maurier's 1932 novel, I'll Never Be Young Again.
In her final years, she was losing her vision due to macular degeneration. She died of a heart attack in Los Angeles on 1 May 2008, aged 86. She is buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
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