Philosopher Jacques Derrida Dies at 74
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PARIS - World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president's office said Saturday. He was 74...
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Nigel Nicolson, who spent his life at the pinnacle of British intellectual and political society, died Sept.
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Eliot Fremont-Smith, in a photo from The Timesâs archive, with markings by editors. Eliot Fremont-Smith, who died last week at 78, was a book critic at the Times from 1961-1968, stormy and important years in American writing. Iâm not old enough to remember his work here (or anywhere, really), but Fremont-Smithâs name has long been [...].
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Charles William Maynes, editor of Foreign Policy magazine for 18 years and a former State Department official, died last weekend at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 68.
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Lucien Carr, a journalist and a member of the inner circle of literature's Beat Generation, died Friday. He was 79.
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NEW YORK: Feminist and author Susan Sontag, who died yesterday in a New York cancer hospital at the age of 71, was one of the most respected US writers of her generation, a leading campaigner for women and an ardent human rights activist who stirred
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The colourful life of French mercenary Bob Denard, who died on 14 October at the age of 78.
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The director of controversial cult film Man Bites Dog has died aged 38, it is reported.
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Richard Avedon, the revolutionary photographer who redefined fashion photography as an art form while achieving critical acclaim through his stark black-and-white portraits of the powerful and celebrated, died Friday. He was 81.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot  to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of  18 and courted controversy throughout her life, died on Friday,  a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was 69, was an icon of  1950s intellectuals and lived the Bohemian lifestyle she  portrayed in her writing. She was a longstanding friend of late  President Francois Mitterrand and was convicted of taking drugs  and for tax evasion.
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Writer Henri Troyat, who fled Russia's revolution as a child and went on to become one of France's most prolific, popular and respected authors, has died, the Academie Francaise said Monday. He was 95.
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag,  one of the most powerful thinkers of her generation and a  leading voice of intellectual opposition to U.S. policy after  the Sept. 11 attacks, died on Tuesday at a New York cancer  hospital. She was 71.
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World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president&#39;s office said Saturday.
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Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet, an "enfant terrible" of France's literary establishment who helped found the New Novel school in the 1950s, died on Monday aged 85, his publishers said.
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World renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a founder of the school of philosophy known as deconstructionism, has died, the office of French President Jacques Chirac said Saturday. Derrida was 74.
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Henri Troyat, one of the great figures of  modern French literature and one of France's most popular  biographers, has died at the age of 95, the Academie Francaise  said on Monday.
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The death of one of the greatest figures in modern French literature, Henri Troyat, is announced in Paris.