Canadian Author Pierre Berton Dead at 84
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Pierre Berton, whose populist tales of Canadian history made him one of the country's best known writers and media personalities, has died at age of 84.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies in hospital in northern France  aged 69, family friends say.
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Pierre Salinger, who served as President John F. Kennedy's press secretary and later had a long career with ABC News, has died at a hospital in southern France. He was 79.
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Laura Archera Huxley, the widow of "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, who worked to preserve his legacy for nearly half a century after his death while authoring her own books, has died. She was 96.
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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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Alain Robbe-Grillet, an author and filmmaker who was one of Franceâs most important avant-garde writers in the 1950s, died on Monday. He was 85. He died at a hospital in western France where he had been admitted over the weekend for cardiac problems, o...
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William Hutt, widely regarded as one of Canada's finest classical actors and a company member at the Stratford Festival for almost four decades, has died at the age of 87.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of 18, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was 69, courted controversy throughout her life and lived the Bohemian lifestyle she portrayed in her writing. She was a longstanding friend of late President Francois Mitterrand and was convicted of taking drugs and for tax fraud.
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Legendary author Sidney Sheldon has died from pneumonia, his publicist told AFP, after a prolific career that saw him pen Oscar-winning screenplays and sell over 300 million books. He was 89.
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Newspapers in France bid a sad adieu to a literary icon.
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Writer Henri Troyat, who fled Russia's revolution as a child and went on to become one of France's most prolific, popular and respected authors, has died, the Academie Francaise said Monday. He was 95.
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Playbill - Ronald Bryden, a literary adviser to the Shaw Festival in Canada, and one of the leading theatre critics in the English-speaking world, died Nov. 22 of complications following recent heart surgery, according to the Ontario festival.
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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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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the  late U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a  distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday,  his family said Sunday. He was 79.
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Marcel Marceau, 84, the world's greatest mime, who single-handedly revived the ancient art with his eloquent but wordless interpretations of complex emotions, died quietly in Paris on Sept. 22. No cause of death was reported.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the  late U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a  distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday,  his family said on Sunday. He was 79.
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French film star Philippe Noiret, whose  trademark hangdog face delighted cinema audiences, has died,  French authorities said on Thursday. He was 76.