Nora Johnson, a novelist and memoirist who had an early success with “The World of Henry Orient,” which was later made into a film with the help of her screenwriter father, Nunnally Johnson, died on Thursday in Dallas. She was 84.

Her death was announced on Monday by her daughter Marion Siwek, who did not specify the cause.

In her novels, which are full of relationships under stress, Ms. Johnson often drew on her experiences with her father, a prolific screenwriter, producer and director, and her upbringing as a child of divorce. Her memoirs told of a childhood spent amid glamour, living in New York with her mother but spending considerable time with her father and stepmother in Hollywood, where she worried about boring him.

“If I went out to Romanoff’s with them and Groucho was there and the Bogarts and Coop and Rocky and all the rest,” she wrote in “Coast to Coast: A Family Romance” (2004), “I’d just be a black hole in the bright tapestry anyway.”

Nora Johnson was born in Hollywood on Jan. 31, 1933, when her father was already well on his way to a prominent career. Her mother, the former Marion Byrnes, a journalist, left her father when Nora was a young child, taking her to New York.