"Wrinkle in Time" author Madeleine L'Engle dies
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Madeleine L'Engle, author of "A Wrinkle in Time" and other tales woven with themes of science, religion, and love and read by millions of children and adults, has died in Connecticut. She was 88.
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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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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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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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Henri Troyat, one of the great figures of  modern French literature and one of France's most popular  biographers, has died at the age of 95, the Academie Francaise  said on Monday.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering a pulmonary embolism.
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Judy Corman, the wife of best-selling author Avery Corman and the beloved head publicist for Scholastic, Inc., which releases the Harry Potter novels in the United States, has died of cancer. She was 65.
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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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Phyllis Cerf Wagner, a writer and actress who later published books by Dr Seuss, has died aged 90.
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Social critic and author Susan Sontag, one of America&#39;s leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday at age 71 at New York&#39;s Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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Pierre Salinger, 79, dies: The press secretary to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and foreign correspondent for ABC News dies in France.
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PORTSMOUTH, NH - Betty Hill, whose tale of being abducted by aliens launched her to fame and became the subject of a bestselling book and television movie, has died.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot  to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of  18 and courted controversy throughout her life, died on Friday,  a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was 69, was an icon of  1950s intellectuals 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 evasion.
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LUXEMBOURG: Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, the mother of Grand Duke Henri, died Monday after a long battle with lung cancer, the government announced.
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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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The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died aged 84, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon's office said on Sunday.
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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.