Author of Flashman stories dies
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Novelist George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman stories, has died aged 82, his publisher has 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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Magazine photojournalist Carl Mydans,  a pioneer of photo essays at Life magazine in the 1930s, has  died at age 97.
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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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Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French  writer who pioneered the so-called new novel genre, dies at the age of 85.
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Top-selling British author Arthur Hailey, whose novels sold 170 million copies around the world, died in his sleep at his Bahamas home, his wife said on Thursday.
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Will Eisner, a master of American  comics and a pioneer of the graphic novel who gave his name to  the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars, has died at the  age of 87, his publisher said on Tuesday.
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A reclusive millionaire author was killed by a man who stole his identity, the Old Bailey hears.
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Dutch author and sculptor Jan  Wolkers, once controversial for his explicit writing on sex and  later famous for his glass and steel creations, died on Friday  aged 81, his publisher said.
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Top-selling British author Arthur Hailey, whose novels sold 170 million copies around the world, died in his sleep at his Bahamas home, his wife said on Thursday. He was 84.
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Author Robert Jordan, whose is best known for the Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels dies of a rare blood disease.
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HAY-ON-WYE  - Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin, creator of the acclaimed Inspector Rebus series, said on Monday his hard-drinking detective hero must retire this year but might well be back to tackle unsolved cases.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering a pulmonary embolism.
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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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Singer and author died at his London home, aged 80.
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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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"I was always on the side of the villain when I was a child and went to the movies. I wanted Basil Rathbone to kill Errol Flynn."  George MacDonald Fraser, author of the 'Flashman' series of historical adventure yarns, died Wednesday, his publisher said. He was 82.Fraser died following a battle with cancer, said Nicholas Latimer, director of publicity for Knopf, which will release Fraser's latest work 'The Reavers' in the United States in April. Latimer was unable to provide details of where Fraser died. He lived on the Isle of Man, off the coast of northwest England.'Flashman,' published in 1969, introduced readers to an enduring literary antihero: the roguish, irrepressible Harry Flashman. Read more