Novelist Phyllis Whitney dies at 103
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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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Shirley Chisholm, the first black US congresswoman and also the first woman to seek presidency, dies aged 80.
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Sidney Sheldon, an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter who went on to become one of the world's most prolific novelists, died in California on Tuesday at the age of 89, a publicist said.
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Beverly Sills, the acclaimed Brooklyn-born soprano, died tonight at her home in Manhattan. She was 78.
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Best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, the sharp-witted liberal who skewered the political establishment and referred to President Bush as "Shrub," died Wednesday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 62.
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New York Times journalist R.W. Apple, a leading 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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Top-selling British author Arthur Hailey, whose novels sold 170 million copies around the world, died in his sleep at his Bahamas home, his wife said on Thursday.
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Julia Child, the grande dame of U.S. television cooking shows whose operatic voice and irreverent attitude brought French haute cuisine into America's humble kitchens, died in her sleep at her California home on Friday at the age of 91.
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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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Francoise Sagan, author of the best-selling novel "Bonjour Tristesse," died Sept. 24 of heart and lung failure in Normandy, France. She was 69.
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Arthur Miller, whose dramas of fierce moral and personal responsibility such as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible" made him one of the 20th century's greatest playwrights, has died at the age of 89.
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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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Jan Wolkers, one of the major Dutch writers of the post-war period, died Friday aged 81, media reported.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to US presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson died, aged 79, of a heart attack in a hospital in southern France and is to be buried in his native United States, his wife said.
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French novelist Pierre Daninos, best known for his best-seller "The diary of Major Thompson", died at the age of 91.
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Rep. Julia Carson, who rose from a childhood of poverty and segregation to become the first black and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress, died Saturday. She was 69.
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Laura Archera Huxley, the widow of "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, who worked to preserve his legacy for nearly half a century after his death while authoring her own books, has died. She was 96.