Mary Ellen Solt, Poet of Words and Shapes, Dead at 86
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Solt was an American poet known for helping disseminate the art of concrete poetry, which marries words and typography to produce works in which the verbal and the visual are inextricably intertwined.
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Susan Sontag, the American author, activist and self-defined &quot;zealot of seriousness&quot;, whose provocative prose made her a leading intellectual, has passed away.
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Madeleine L'Engle, author of "A Wrinkle in Time" and other tales woven with themes of science, religion, and love and read by millions of children and adults, has died in Connecticut. She was 88.
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Description: Author Susan Sontag died Tuesday in Manhattan, after a long struggle with cancer. Sontag was the author of many essays and 17 widely translated books.
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Rose Mary Woods, the devoted secretary to President Nixon who admitted to inadvertently erasing part of a crucial Watergate tape, had died. She was 87.
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SAN FRANCISCO Mary Elaine Gennoy--a San Francisco resident and an avid medical marijuana activist--has died at age 53. Close friends say Gennoy died September fifth from complications after undergoing throat surgery for cancer of the larynx.
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Viktor Schreckengost, an artist and prolific industrial designer whose ubiquitous works ranged from familiar toys and White House porcelain to innovative trucks and even lawn mowers, has died. He was 101.
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Shirley Chisholm, the first black US congresswoman and also the first woman to seek presidency, dies aged 80.
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Jacques Derrida, one of France's best-known philosophers and the founder of the deconstructionist school, has died of cancer at the age of 74, his entourage said.
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Hungarian poet Gyorgy Faludy, a legend   of resistance to the rise of Nazism and Communism, died at the   age of 96 at his home in Budapest, national news agency MTI   said on Saturday.
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Best-selling author Bebe Moore Campbell, whose books dealt with race and mental health issues, dies aged 56.
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Susan Sontag, who died Tuesday at 71, brought to the world of ideas not just an Olympian rigor but a glamour and sexiness it had seldom seen before.
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Mary Elaine Gennoy, a medical marijuana activist and a ubiquitous and popular figure in the Castro, where she lived and once ran as a write-in candidate for San Francisco supervisor, died Sept.
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America's first female poet laureate  Mona Van Duyn, once described as a pioneer of the poetry of the  suburbs, has died in St. Louis at the age of 83, her publisher  Alfred A. Knopf said on Thursday.
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Francoise Sagan, the French novelist who penned &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot;, an anthem to disillusioned youth that became one of the best-known books of the 20th century, died aged 69, family friends said.
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Coffee legend Alfred Peet, creator of Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc., a forerunner to Starbucks Corp., has died at his home in Ashland, Oregon, his company said. He was 87.
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Marianne Fredriksson, one of Sweden's best known and most translated authors, has died at the age of 79, Swedish media quoted her agent as saying on Sunday.