Best-Selling Novelist Arthur Hailey Dies
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Arthur Hailey, author of "Airport," "Hotel" and other novels that became hit movies, has died, his wife said Thursday. He was 84.
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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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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering heart and lung failure.
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The best-selling French writer Francoise Sagan, who has died aged 69, is to be buried on Tuesday in a village near where she was born in southwestern France, family friends said.
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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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Julien Gracq, a celebrated French writer known for surrealism and solitude and for having turned down France's top literary prize, has died, hospital officials said Sunday. He was 97.
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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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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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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan has died in the north-western town of Honfleur aged 69. She died of heart and lung failure a few days after being admitted to a local hospital.
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Ephraim Kishon, a Holocaust survivor who became one of Israel's best known and most widely translated authors, has died at his home in Switzerland, Israeli media reports said on Sunday. He was 80.
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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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Julien Gracq, a reclusive French writer known for surrealism and who famously turned down France's highest literary award, died at age 97 on Saturday.
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Political author, Independent columnist and Nelson Mandela's biographer Anthony Sampson dies aged 78.
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Arthur Miller, author of several award-winning plays such as Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View From the Bridge, died earlier this week due to pneumonia, cancer and heart problems. He was 89. Miller's plays have been stud...
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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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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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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.