'Flashman' author Fraser dies
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George MacDonald Fraser, who wrote the best-selling Flashman series of adventure stories about a colonial-era British Army officer, has died aged 82, British media said Wednesday.
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Is it possible that John Buchan, who published his novel âThe 39 Stepsâ in 1915, is better known in Britain than Hitchcock, the cinematic master of suspense who in 1935 made his film adaptation of that novel into one of the triumphs of his early London period?
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&quot;Superman&quot; actor Christopher Reeve, who became a committed campaigner for spinal cord research after being paralysed in a riding accident nine years ago, has died of heart failure, his publicist says.
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DUBAI, UAE - The man who forged the ultramodern United Arab Emirates out of a federation of seven tiny Persian Gulf states has died.
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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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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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One of the country's best-read columnists has died after suffering from a brain tumour, the Daily Mail says.
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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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The man who soared to fame as the star of the Superman films and was grounded by a paralyzing accident in mid career has died at the age of 52.
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Playwright Arthur Miller, famous for The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, dies  aged 89.
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Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet,  an "enfant terrible" of France's literary establishment who  helped found the New Novel school in the 1950s, died on Monday  aged 85, his publishers said.
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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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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 age 87, his publisher said on Tuesday.
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George MacDonald Fraser, creator of the caddish Victorian anti-hero Harry Flashman, has died
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Malcolm Summers, one of the closest  eyewitnesses to the John F. Kennedy assassination, has died of  a heart ailment at age of 80, a funeral home said on Monday.
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Best-selling US novelist Sidney Sheldon dies in California aged 89 of complications from pneumonia.
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Malcolm Summers, one of the closest eyewitnesses to the John F. Kennedy assassination, has died of a heart ailment at age of 80, a funeral home said on Monday.