Author Iris Chang Dies
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Description: Iris Chang, historian and author of the bestselling nonfiction book The Rape of Nanking, dies in California of apparent suicide at age 36.
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Iris Chang, a journalist whose best-selling book, &quot;The Rape of Nanking&quot; -- a chronicle of the atrocities committed in that Chinese city by occupying Japanese forces -- helped break a six-decade international silence on the subject, committed suicide Nov.
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New York Times journalist R.W. Apple, a lead writer on war and politics for decades before he returned to the noodle shops of Saigon and restaurants of Paris to write about the food and wine he loved, died on Wednesday. He was 71.
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Novelist George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman stories, has died aged 82, his publisher has said.
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A legendary Chinese nurse who cared for injured U.S. Flying Tigers airmen during World War Two and suffered beatings during the Cultural Revolution has died at 95, state media said on Thursday.
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Teji Bachchan, wife of the late Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan and mother of Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan, died on Friday after a prolonged illness. She was 93.
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The acclaimed Chinese-American author Iris Chang was eulogized in simultaneous ceremonies in northern California, Washington and Nanjing, China, after her apparent suicide earlier this month.
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag, one of the strongest voices of intellectual opposition to US policies after the September 11 attacks, has died at the age of 71.
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NEW YORK: Feminist and author Susan Sontag, who died yesterday in a New York cancer hospital at the age of 71, was one of the most respected US writers of her generation, a leading campaigner for women and an ardent human rights activist who stirred
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag,  one of the strongest voices of intellectual opposition to U.S.  policies after the Sept. 11 attacks, died on Tuesday at age 71  at a New York cancer hospital.
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Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest  British novelists of the 20th century, revealed the first signs  of Alzheimer's disease in her final novel, researchers said on  Wednesday.
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Syndicated astrologer Joyce  Jillson, who claims to have provided advice for Ronald and  Nancy Reagan, has died at age 58, associates said on Wednesday.
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Best-selling writer Iris Chang is found dead in her car in California with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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In a room of mostly white male high-tech players, Anita Brown was the say-it-like-it-is black woman in red high-top sneakers. A social networker and blogger long before anyone heard of those terms, Brown died Sept. 8 of cardiac arrest at age 63.
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Author and activist Susan Sontag has died in New York. She was 71. News of her death today came from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.
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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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Anita Roddick, founder of the international Body Shop cosmetics chain, died Monday night after suffering a major brain hemorrhage, her family said. She was 64.