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Tynan disapproved of Dundy's writing vocation despite having forecast success,<ref name="Telegraph"/> because it distracted attention from himself; Dundy, however, had seen it as a means to save their marriage. Around this time, Tynan started to insist on flagellating his wife, with the threat of his own suicide if she refused.<ref name="Purser"/><ref name="TimesTracy">{{cite news|last=Hoyle|first=Ben|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/im-going-to-jump-dad-screamed-my-mother-said-why-dont-you-9gb8bsldh|title=Tracy Tynan's upbringing: celebrities, drugs, wife-beating and sex|work=The Times|date=February 23, 2017|access-date=May 14, 2021}} {{subscription required}}</ref> Drugs, alcohol, and extramarital affairs by both parties resulted in the marriage becoming fraught, and it was dissolved in 1964. In 1962, she was a writer for the BBC's satirical ''[[That Was the Week That Was]]''. Dundy attempted to cure herself of addictions from 1968 to 1976,<ref name="Times"/> though according to her daughter, she struggled with drugs and alcohol for half a century. Dundy lived mainly in New York after her divorce.<ref name="TimesTracy" /> In addition to novels and short stories, Dundy wrote for ''[[The New York Times]]''. She wrote books on the actor [[Peter Finch]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=McDougal |first=Holt |date=31.12.1980 |title=Finch, Bloody Finch: A Life of Peter Finch |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272578.Finch_Bloody_Finch |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718170038/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272578.Finch_Bloody_Finch |archive-date=18.07.2022.}}</ref>, the city of [[Ferriday, Louisiana]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Books |first=Dutton |date=01.06.1991. |title=Ferriday Louisiana |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272573.Ferriday_Louisiana |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718170242/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272573.Ferriday_Louisiana |archive-date=18.07.2022.}}</ref>, and [[Elvis Presley]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=26.05.2004 |title=Elvis and Gladys |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272572.Elvis_and_Gladys |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718165713/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272572.Elvis_and_Gladys |archive-date=18.07.2022}}</ref>.
As part of her research for the Presley book, Dundy moved from her luxurious suites in London and New York to live for five months in Presley's birthplace of [[Tupelo, Mississippi]]. ''[[Elvis and Gladys]]'' was first published by Macmillan in 1985 (reissued in 2004 by the University Press of Mississippi). The ''Boston Globe'' hailed it as "nothing less than the best Elvis book yet."<ref name=":0" /> ''[[Kirkus Reviews]]'' described it as "the most fine-grained Elvis bio ever."<ref>{{
==Later life==
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