Susan Sontag, famed and unpredictable public thinker, dead at age ...
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As she lay ill last summer following a bone marrow transplant, Susan Sontag would listen to music, keep up on current events and indulge a passion seemingly too light for one of
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Susan Sontag, critic, novelist, public intellectual and woman of conscience, died of leukemia Tuesday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.
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"She came to the conclusion that the more she spoke the truth, the more she was disbelieved"  Actress Pat Kirkwood, once a star of British musical theater, has died, a close family friend said Wednesday. She was 86.Kirkwood's career of more than 60 years included leading roles in musicals written by Noel Coward and Cole Porter. But Kirkwood was dogged her whole life by rumors of a romantic liaison with Prince Philip _ which she always denied _ after the two were spotted dancing at a London nightclub.Kirkwood died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Ilkley, northern England, author and royal biographer Michael Thornton, said in a statement. She had been suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and a chest infection, he said. Read more
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Norman Cohn, a historian who studied the links between apocalyptic Medieval sects and 20th century totalitarianism and genocide, has died. He was 92.
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The Hungarian poet, novelist and former dissident Gyorgy Faludy has died in Budapest at the age of 96.
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Author and activist Susan Sontag is being remembered for her dedication to human rights and her decades-long fight against cancer.
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NEW YORK : American feminist author Susan Sontag died Tuesday at New York&#39;s Memorial Sloan-Kettering medical center at the age of 71, following a long struggle against cancer, the hospital announced.
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the  computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most  colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76.
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Description: Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients, has died at age 78.
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Susan Sontag, an intellectual and human rights activist who wrote on subjects as diverse as photography, philosophy and AIDS, died today in New York City.
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French philosopher was the father of deconstructionism. Derrida died Friday of pancreatic cancer at age 74, French media reported.
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The writer died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York on Tuesday morning. Calling herself an &quot;obsessed moralist&quot;, Sontag was the author of 17 books and a lifelong human rights activist.
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Susan Sontag's impassioned political pronouncements and her advocacy of the avant-garde made her a lionized and polarizing figure in 20th-century letters.
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Novelist, essayist, critic, filmmaker, political commentator and lesbian Susan Sontag -- one of America&#39;s leading intellectuals -- died Tuesday at Memorial Sloan-Kettring Cancer Center in Manhattan from leukemia complications.
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Variety - THERE'S A SUDDEN abundance of movies out there focusing on edgy individuals -- Kerry, Bush, Clinton et al. -- but the film that may provoke the noisiest reaction is about someone who's been dead 50 years.
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Social critic and author Susan Sontag, one of America&#39;s leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday at age 71 at New York&#39;s Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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Said Sonbol, a veteran columnist and former editor-in-chief of Al-Akhbar, one of Egypt's leading daily newspapers, has died. He was 75.