Romance author Kathleen Woodiwiss dies
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Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, a pioneer of the modern historical romance novel marked by strong heroines, detailed period settings and steamy sex scenes, has died, her family and publisher said Tuesday. She was 68.
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Jane Wyman, the Oscar-winning actress and former wife of Ronald Reagan, has died at he age of 93, officials said Monday.
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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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NEW YORK -- Susan Sontag, an author and activist who called herself a &quot;zealot of seriousness,&quot; died Tuesday at the age of 71.
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Playbill - William Hutt, an acting institution at the Stratford Festival of Canada, died in his sleep in the early hours of June 27, the festival reported. He was 87.
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British-born author Arthur Hailey, who penned 11 best-sellers, has reportedly died at his home in the Bahamas. Hailey, who was 84, died in his sleep on Wednesday at his New Providence island home, his wife Sheila said.
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Social critic and author Susan  Sontag, one of America's leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday  at age 71 at New York's Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle  with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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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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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, an unabashed apostle of Reagan era conservatism and the first woman U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died.
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Curtis Carroll, husband of U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab, has died, Schwab's office announced Tuesday.
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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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Singer and actress Barbara McNair,  who starred opposite Elvis Presley and Sidney Poitier and  became one of the first black women to host her own television  variety show, has died at 72, her husband said on Monday.
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Singer Barbara McNair, who became a film and television star in an era when such opportunities were opening up for black women, has died, her sister said. She was 72.
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Virginia Mayo, a 1940s screen siren  who co-starred opposite such greats as Danny Kaye and James  Cagney, died near Los Angeles on Monday of pneumonia and heart  failure, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site. She  was 84.
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Best-selling author Bebe Moore Campbell, whose books dealt with race and mental health issues, dies aged 56.
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America's first female poet laureate  Mona Van Duyn, once described as a pioneer of the poetry of the  suburbs, has died in St. Louis at the age of 83, her publisher  Alfred A. Knopf said on Thursday.
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US author Susan Sontag, who was regarded as a leading activist and intellectual, has died in New York. She was 71. Sontag, who had been battling leukaemia, died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the city where she was born.