Prolific British writer Behr dies at 81
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, has died in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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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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British-born author Arthur Hailey, who penned 11 best-sellers, has reportedly died at his home in the Bahamas. Hailey, who was 84, died in his sleep on Wednesday at his New Providence island home, his wife Sheila said.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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American fashion designer Geoffrey Beene, whose simple designs made him a department store favorite for decades, died on Tuesday at his Manhattan home.
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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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Egypt's Naguib Mahfouz, the only Arab to have won the Nobel Prize for literature, dies in hospital in Cairo.
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Arts & entertainment: Controversial comedian, whose jokes saw him banned around the country, dies aged 76.
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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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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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Author and social critic Susan Sontag, one of the strongest voices of intellectual opposition to US policies after the September 11 attacks, has died at the age of 71.
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In an obituary May 27 for British foreign correspondent and prolific author Edward Behr, The Associated Press erroneously reported that he wrote "The Artful Eater." The 1993 book was written by the American food writer of the same name, according to the book's publisher, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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One of India's best known novelists and short-story writers, Mulk Raj Anand,  dies at the age of 99.
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NEW YORK - Geoffrey Beene, the award-winning designer whose simple, classic styles for men and women put him at the forefront of American fashion, died Tuesday at his home. He was 77...
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Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the  only writer in Arabic to win the Nobel Prize for literature,  died on Wednesday in Cairo aged 94, doctors said.
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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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Controversial comedian, whose jokes saw him  banned around the country, dies aged 76.