71-year-old US author Susan Sontag dies of leukemia
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Susan Sontag, who died Tuesday at age 71 of complications of acute myelogenous leukemia, was both the most rarefied and the least predictable of thinkers, drawn to the demands
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Marianne Fredriksson, one of Sweden's best known and most translated authors, has died at the age of 79, Swedish media quoted her agent as saying on Sunday.
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Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, author of the international bestseller &quot;Das Boot&quot; (The Boat) which became an Oscar-nominated film, has died at the age of 89, authorities said Friday.
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US television evangelist Tammy Faye Messner has died aged 65 after a long battle with cancer.
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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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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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U.S. playwright Arthur Miller has died  after battling cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition, The New  York Times reported on its Web site on Friday.
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Tragic end for 29-year-old mum A 29-year-old Salford mother of two has died of skin cancer thought to have been caused by excessive sun bed use, the Manchester Evening News reports.â¦
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As she lay ill last summer following a bone marrow transplant, Susan Sontag would listen to music, keep up on current events and indulge a passion seemingly too light for one of
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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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Susan Sontag, the American author, activist and self-defined &quot;zealot of seriousness&quot;, whose provocative prose made her a leading intellectual, has passed away.
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As she lay ill last summer following a bone marrow transplant, Susan Sontag would listen to music, keep up on current events and indulge a passion seemingly too light for one of the world's leading intellectuals: Hollywood musicals of the 1930s, '40s and '50s.
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R.W. Apple Jr., 71 , a New York Times war correspondent who distinguished himself in Vietnam and became an influential political writer and roving epicure, died Oct. 4 at his home in Washington. He had thoracic cancer.
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NEW YORK - Susan Sontag, a leading intellectual and activist of the past half century who introduced the concept of &quot;camp&quot; to mainstream culture and influenced the way many thought about art, illness and photography, died Tuesday.
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Best-selling author and journalist  Bebe Moore Campbell, who tackled social issues from an African  American perspective in books like "Brothers and Sisters," has  died of complications from brain cancer.
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Dr. Judah Folkman, who discovered that tumors generate their own network of tiny blood vessels to nourish themselves, has died at the age of 74, Harvard Medical School said on Tuesday.
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Description: Author Susan Sontag died Tuesday in Manhattan, after a long struggle with cancer. Sontag was the author of many essays and 17 widely translated books.