Best-Selling Novelist Arthur Hailey Dies
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Arthur Hailey, the best-selling author who plucked characters from ordinary life and threw them into extraordinary ordeals, died in his home in the Bahamas, his wife said Thursday. He was 84.
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NASSAU, Bahamas -- Best-selling writer Arthur Hailey, who wrote the book that was turned into the hit movie &quot;Airport,&quot; has died at his home in the Bahamas.
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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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Pete McCarthy, the Englishman with Irish blood who traded on his name to bring the craic and the characters of thesaloon bars of the Emerald Isle to millions of readers, has died at the age of 51.
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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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Novelist and gay rights activist Joseph Hansen, whose highly successful mystery series featured one of the genre's first openly homosexual investigators, Dave Brandstetter, has died at age 81 after a long illness, friends said on Monday.
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Novelist and gay rights activist  Joseph Hansen, whose highly successful mystery series featured  one of the genre's first openly homosexual investigators, Dave  Brandstetter, has died at age 81 after a long illness, friends  said on Monday.
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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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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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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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Jackie Torrence, who overcame a speech impediment as a child to become a renowned storyteller, died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack, her sister said. She was 60.
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Sidney Sheldon, who found success writing novels after Hollywood career, dies at 89
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HONFLEUR, France - Francoise Sagan, author of the best-selling 1954 novel &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot; about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich, died Friday.
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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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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot; at the age of 18 and courted controversy throughout her life, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of 18, died 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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Molly Ivins, the best-selling author and columnist who aimed her razor-sharp barbs at politicians and dubbed President George W. Bush "Shrub," died on Wednesday. She was 62.