US author Susan Sontag dies at 71
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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Author and activist Susan Sontag is being remembered for her dedication to human rights and her decades-long fight against cancer.
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Author Madeleine L'Engle, whose novel "A Wrinkle in Time" has captivated generations of schoolchildren and adults since the 1960s, has died, her publicist said Friday. She was 88. L'Engle died Thursday at a nursing home in Litchfield, said Jennifer Doerr, publicity manager for publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Susan Sontag, a leading intellectual and activist of the past half century who introduced the concept of &quot;camp&quot; to mainstream culture and also influenced the way many thought about art, illness and photography, died Tuesday.
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LAS GATOS, Calif. Critically acclaimed author Iris Chang has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She was 36. Chang was the best-selling author of &quot;The Rape of Nanking,&quot; which chronicled the Japanese occupation of China.
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AVIGNON, France Oct 17  - Pierre Salinger, press secretary to US presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson died, aged 79, of a heart attack in a hospital in southern France Saturday and will be buried in the United States, his wife said early
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the  late U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a  distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday,  his family said on Sunday. He was 79.
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The author of the German war novel "Das  Boot," Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, has died, his spokeswoman said  on Friday. He was 89.
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag,  one of the strongest voices of intellectual opposition to U.S.  policies after the Sept. 11 attacks, died on Tuesday at age 71  at a New York cancer hospital.
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U.S. playwright Arthur Miller has died  after battling cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition, The New  York Times reported on its Web site on Friday.
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Mona Van Duyn, the nation's first female poet laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner, died Thursday morning at her home from bone cancer, her husband said. She was 83.
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Mary Rettig Irish, a philanthropist and wife of Hearst Newspapers President George B. Irish, died Sunday after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was 59.
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The writer died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York on Tuesday morning. Calling herself an &quot;obsessed moralist&quot;, Sontag was the author of 17 books and a lifelong human rights activist.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French  writer who pioneered the so-called new novel genre, dies at the age of 85.
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Hungarian poet Gyorgy Faludy, a legend  of resistance to the rise of Nazism and Communism, died at the  age of 95 at his home in Budapest, national news agency MTI  said on Saturday.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering heart and lung failure.
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U.S. playwright Arthur Miller has died after battling cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition, The New York Times reported on its Web site on Friday.