Author and Activist Susan Sontag Dies
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Susan Sontag, a leading intellectual and activist of the past half century who introduced the concept of &quot;camp&quot; to mainstream culture and also influenced the way many thought about art, illness and photography, died Tuesday.
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American intellectual and author Susan Sontag has died in New York at the age of 71. Her son, David Rieff, said the cause was complications stemming from acute myelogenous leukaemia, one of the deadliest forms of leukaemia.
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The Rev. James Orange, a civil rights activist whose 1965 jailing sparked a fatal protest that ultimately led to the famed Selma-to-Montgomery march and the Voting Rights Act, died Saturday at Atlanta's Crawford Long Hospital, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said in a statement. He was 65.
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SAN FRANCISCO Mary Elaine Gennoy--a San Francisco resident and an avid medical marijuana activist--has died at age 53. Close friends say Gennoy died September fifth from complications after undergoing throat surgery for cancer of the larynx.
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The writer Susan Sontagâs death, as set out in a short and immensely disturbing account by her son, David Rieff, must rank as one of the worst ever described.
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Description: Author Susan Sontag died Tuesday in Manhattan, after a long struggle with cancer. Sontag was the author of many essays and 17 widely translated books.
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Arts & entertainment: Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died. He was 84.
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Four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher died Saturday in a Seattle hospital of a reoccurrence of leukemia after a recent stem-cell transplant, her doctor said. She was 51.
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The author of "Death of a Salesman," whose work exposed the flaws in the fabric of the American dream, died Thursday.
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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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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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Phyllis Cerf Wagner, a writer and actress who later published books by Dr Seuss, has died aged 90.
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Iris Chang, the prominent Chinese American author and journalist who fueled an international protest movement against Japan with her incendiary best-selling book, &quot;The Rape of Nanking,&quot; was found dead from an apparent self- inflicted gunshot wound
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag,  one of the most powerful thinkers of her generation and a  leading voice of intellectual opposition to U.S. policy after  the Sept. 11 attacks, died on Tuesday at a New York cancer  hospital. She was 71.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 28 -- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century, has died, his son said. He was 89.
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NEW YORK : American feminist author Susan Sontag died Tuesday at New York&#39;s Memorial Sloan-Kettering medical center at the age of 71, following a long struggle against cancer, the hospital announced.
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Susan Sontag, the writer and activist whose powerful intellect helped shape modern American thinking for nearly half a century, died yesterday at the age of 71.