Author Sidney Sheldon dies
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The best-selling American novelist Sidney Sheldon dies aged 89 of complications from pneumonia.
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U.S. playwright Arthur Miller, one of  the giants of American literature, has died, his assistant said  on Friday. He was 89.
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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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French novelist Pierre Daninos, best known for his best-seller "The diary of Major Thompson", died at the age of 91.
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British-born writer Arthur Hailey, author of 11 best-sellers, dies at his home in the Bahamas, says his wife Sheila.
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ARTHUR Hailey, the best-selling author who put ordinary characters into extraordinary situations, has died in his Bahamas home. He was 84.
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George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman stories, has died aged 82, his publisher has said.
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Playwright Arthur Miller, famous for The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, dies  aged 89.
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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.
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Sidney Sheldon, who won awards in three careers, Broadway theater, movies and television, and who at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world of ruthless men, has died. He was 89.
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Jazz singer and author George Melly dies at his London home at the age of 80
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Arthur Miller, whose dramas of fierce moral and personal responsibility such as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible" made him one of the 20th century's greatest playwrights, has died at the age of 89.
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Arthur Hailey, a British-born mass-market novelist who developed a successful formula with such bestsellers as &quot;Hotel,&quot; &quot;Airport,&quot; &quot;Wheels&quot; and &quot;The Moneychangers,&quot; died in his sleep Nov. 24
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The author of &quot;the Rape of Nanking,&quot; an acclaimed history of Japanese brutality against China in the 1930s, has committed suicide, officials said on Thursday.
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Author, broadcaster and newspaper columnist Miles Kington has died after a short illness at the age of 66.
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Novelist Phyllis A. Whitney, whose romantic suspense tales sold millions of copies and earned her top accolades from the Mystery Writers of America, has died. She was 104.
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One of the country's best-read columnists has died after suffering from a brain tumour, the Daily Mail says.