Writer Susan Sontag Dies at Age 71
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Social critic and author Susan Sontag, one of America&#39;s leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday at age 71 at New York&#39;s Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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Susan Sontag, the internationally renowned novelist, essayist and critic died yesterday in New York. Her impassioned advocacy of the avant-garde and equally impassioned political pronouncements
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A Londoner believed to be the world's oldest newspaper columnist dies at the age of 101.
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Sarajevo authorities will name a street after Susan Sontag, who helped the city's residents during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
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As she lay ill last summer following a bone marrow transplant, Susan Sontag would listen to music, keep up on current events and indulge a passion seemingly too light for one of the world's leading intellectuals: Hollywood musicals of the 1930s, '40s and '50s.
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Swedish actress and author Eva Dahlbeck, most famous for numerous appearances in movies by legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, has died, her son said Saturday. She was 87.
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Susan Sontag's impassioned political pronouncements and her advocacy of the avant-garde made her a lionized and polarizing figure in 20th-century letters.
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Russian-born writer Henri Troyat, who moved to France as a child and became one of the most prolific, popular and respected writers of his adopted country, has died, a fellow writer said. He was 95.
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Arthur Miller, author of several award-winning plays such as Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View From the Bridge, died earlier this week due to pneumonia, cancer and heart problems. He was 89. Miller's plays have been stud...
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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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German expressionist artist Joerg Immendorff, famous for his surreal and provocative paintings and sculptures, died on Monday at age 61 in Duesseldorf after a long illness, his wife Oda Jaune-Immendorff said.
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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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The French mime artist Marcel Marceau has died at the age of 83, one of his children told AFP on Sunday.
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Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died, French media reported Sunday. He was 84
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Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died Tuesday. She was 71.
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Foreign Corresp. One of France's most famous Bohemian writers, Francoise Sagan, has died at the age of 69.
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Susan Sontag, who died Tuesday at age 71 of complications of acute myelogenous leukemia, was both the most rarefied and the least predictable of thinkers, drawn to the demands