Legendary novelist Sidney Sheldon dies at 89
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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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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot; at the age of 18, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said.
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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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Best-selling US novelist Sidney Sheldon dies in California aged 89 of complications from pneumonia.
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Arthur Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose most famous fictional creation, Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman," came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry, has diedy. He was 89.
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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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Singer and author died at his London home, aged 80.
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Milosz, who won the Nobel Literature Prize in 1980, died on August 14 at the age of 93 at his home in the southern city of Krakow.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a Swiss-born psychiatrist and author who gained international fame for her landmark work on death and dying, has died in her suburban Phoenix home. She was 78.
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British-born author, Arthur Hailey, died peacefully in his sleep Wednesday night at his home in Lyford Cay on New Providence Island, the Bahamas where he had lived for forty years.
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Sheldon Brown, the web's foremost authority on all things bicycle-related, died Sunday of a heart attack. Brown's infectious love of cycling and his encyclopedic website touched thousands of cycling netizens.
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Sidney Sheldon, who won awards in three careers, Broadway theater, movies and television, then at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world of ruthless men, has died. He was 89.
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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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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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The author, best known for the childrenâs classic âA Wrinkle in Time,â died Thursday at 88.
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Playwright Arthur Miller, a titan of  American theater who wrote "Death of a Salesman" and was  revered for works that spoke for the common man, has died. He  was 89.
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Arthur Hailey, the British-born author whose novels about ordinary people facing extraordinary ordeals sold millions of copies in airports around the world, died in his home in the Bahamas yesterday.