Arthur Hailey, British Author Of &#39;Hotel&#39; and &#39;Airport,&#39; Dies
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Arthur Hailey, a British-born mass-market novelist who developed a successful formula with such bestsellers as &quot;Hotel,&quot; &quot;Airport,&quot; &quot;Wheels&quot; and &quot;The Moneychangers,&quot; died in his sleep Nov. 24
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"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair," the late British author W. Somerset Maugham has oft been quoted as saying. He obviously didn't live in the Anna Nicole Smith era.
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Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels depicting modern Egyptian life in his beloved, millennium-old corner of Islamic Cairo, died Wednesday, his doctor said. He was 94.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies in hospital in northern France  aged 69, family friends say.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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Madeleine L'Engle, author of "A Wrinkle in Time" and other tales woven with themes of science, religion, and love and read by millions of children and adults, has died in Connecticut. She was 88.
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Singer and author died at his London home, aged 80.
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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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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of 18 and courted controversy throughout her life, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said.
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Israeli author Moshe Shamir, an extreme-right proponent of a Greater Israel expanded to its biblical borders, has died at the age of 83 at Rishon Le Tzion, near Tel Aviv, his family said.
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German historian and publisher Joachim  Fest, author of a landmark biography of Adolf Hitler, has died  aged 79, German media reported on Tuesday.
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Francoise Sagan, the French novelist who penned &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot;, an anthem to disillusioned youth that became one of the best-known books of the 20th century, died aged 69, family friends said.
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The memoirs of former British prime  minister Tony Blair will be published in Britain and the United  States by Random House, the world's biggest book publisher said  on Thursday.
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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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Lord Charles Forte, a London cafe owner who went on to build the Trust House Forte international hotel and restaurant empire, died Wednesday at the age of 98. Forte died in his sleep at his London home, according to his family's company, now called Rocco Forte Hotels.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering a pulmonary embolism.
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Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marrying an octogenarian billionaire to the untimely death of her son, died Thursday after collapsing at a South Florida hotel