During her seven years at "Vogue", Didion worked her way up from promotional copywriter to associate feature editor. While there, and homesick for California, she wrote her first novel, "Run, River", which was published in 1963. Writer and friend John Gregory Dunne helped her edit the book, and the two moved into an apartment together. A year later they married, and Didion returned to California with her new husband. The two wrote many newsstand-magazine assignments. "She and Dunne started doing that work with an eye to covering the bills, and then a little more," Nathan Heller reported in The New Yorker. "Their "Evening Post" rates allowed them to rent a tumbledown Hollywood mansion, buy a banana-colored Corvette Stingray, raise a child, and dine well." In 1968, she published her first work of nonfiction, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", a collection of magazine pieces about her experiences in California. "The New York Times" referred to it as containing "grace, sophistication, nuance, irony".