Author Arthur Hailey Dies After Apparent Stroke
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NASSAU, Bahamas -- Best-selling writer Arthur Hailey, who wrote the book that was turned into the hit movie &quot;Airport,&quot; has died at his home in the Bahamas.
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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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Nagib Mahfuz, Egypt's most celebrated author and the only Arab to win the Nobel prize for literature, has died at the age of 94, several weeks after his health suddenly deteriorated.
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Superman film star Christopher Reeve, who became a vocal advocate for spinal-cord research after a disabling horse-riding accident nine years ago, died Oct. 10 of complications from an infection caused by a bedsore, the Associated Press reported.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot; at the age of 18 and courted controversy throughout her life, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said.
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Author, broadcaster and newspaper columnist Miles Kington has died after a short illness at the age of 66.
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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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Novelist Arthur Hailey, who has died at the age of 84, was known for his bestselling page-turners exploring the inner workings of various industries, from the hotels to high finance.
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NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 26: Arthur Hailey, the best-selling author whose exhaustively researched suspense novels like Airport and Hotel also became screen hits, died in his sleep on Wednesday at his home in the Bahamas, his agent, Nancy Stauffer, said on
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French author Julien Gracq, one of the last links with the pre-World War II Surrealist movement, has died at the age of 97, his family said Sunday.
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Albert Warren, 86, who built a group of newsletters covering the telecommunications, broadcasting and consumer electronics industries into a small, influential empire, died after a stroke Nov. 26 at his home in Washington.
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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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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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NEW YORK -- Susan Sontag, an author and activist who called herself a &quot;zealot of seriousness,&quot; died Tuesday at the age of 71.
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U.S. playwright Arthur Miller, one of  the giants of American literature, has died, his assistant said  on Friday. He was 89.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman stories, has died aged 82, his publisher has said.