Madeleine LâEngle, Childrenâs Writer, Is Dead
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The author, best known for the childrenâs classic âA Wrinkle in Time,â died Thursday at 88.
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One of India's best known novelists and short-story writers, Mulk Raj Anand,  dies at the age of 99.
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LONDON, Sept. 8 -- Traces of blood discovered by British sniffer dogs in a car rented by Gerry and Kate McCann have led Portuguese police to believe that 4-year-old Madeleine McCann was killed and not kidnapped, according to family members and friends.
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Letâs not lose the plot. In defense of âbadâ words in childrenâs books.
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Novelist Phyllis A. Whitney, whose romantic suspense tales sold millions of copies and earned her top accolades from the Mystery Writers of America, has died. She was 104.
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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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Egypt's Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz dies in hospital in Cairo, at the age of 94.
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LISBON, Portugal The last of three Portuguese children who claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal, has died.
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NEW YORK  - With the Hollywood writers strike putting the brakes on film and TV writing, a group of scribes has found an unusual mode of creative expression: children's books.
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Russian-born writer Henri Troyat, who moved to France as a child and became one of the most prolific, popular and respected writers of his adopted country, has died, a fellow writer said. He was 95.
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Susan Sontag, the author, human rights activist and social critic, has died in a New York cancer hospital, aged 71. Ms Sontag, who had suffered from leukemia for some time, was known for interests that ranged
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The last of three children who say the Virgin Mary appeared before them in Portugal in 1917 dies aged 97.
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LONDON, Sept. 8 -- Traces of blood discovered by British sniffer dogs in a car rented by Gerry and Kate McCann have led Portuguese police to believe that 4-year old Madeleine McCann was killed and not kidnapped, according to family members and friends.
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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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Chronology of key events in the disappearance of 4-year-old Madeleine McCann.
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Here's an up-to-the-minute round-up from Europe of what has been doing in the ongoing potboiler regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the missing 3-year-old girl who allegedly was kidnapped from her room at a Portuguese vacation resort in May. Should you have had your head buried in the sand during the past few months or were abducted by aliens, first the background: Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann had allegedly put all of their children to bed in a room at the Portuguese vacation village and were "relaxing with friends" over a few drinks at a tapas bar close to their room. Yes, the children were alone, unsupervised, but "being checked up on regularly" by their doting Doctor-parents. Varying accounts exist of how much alcohol was consumed during the evening. At the last bed-check, allegedly around 10 pm, Mrs. McCann allegedly discovered Maddie to be missing. Early reports indicated she returned to the tapas bar shouting hysterically "They've taken her, they've taken her." A massive month-long manhunt ensured and failed to turn up any clue of the little girl, despite leads pouring in, sightings of her in places as far away as Belgium. Vowing not to leave Portugal until Maddie was returned to them, the McCanns fled Portugal for the safety of Britain last week when Portuguese authorities stopped just shy of directly accusing the couple of having either accidentally or purposely killed their daughter and covered up the toddler's death with a fake abduction story. Since then, the accusations have been flying, tensions mounting and tempers here on Topix in the various fora running hot and heavy. And now, as a public service from Europe, a round-up of the latest headlines concerning the disappearance/death/kidnapping/murder/story of Madeleine McCann, age 3... (more) *********************************************
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One of the country's best-read columnists has died after suffering from a brain tumour, the Daily Mail says.