James Crumley Dies at 68

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Missoula author James Crumley, 68, died Wednesday afternoon at St. Patrick Hospital after many years of health complications. Full Story

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David Foster Wallace Dies at 46

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David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 tome "Infinite Jest," was found dead last night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. Full Story

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Gregory Mcdonald Dies at 71

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Gregory Mcdonald, author of the best-selling "Fletch" mystery novels that became hit movies, died Sunday of prostate cancer in Pulaski, Tenn. Full Story

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Edgardo Vega Yunqué Has Died

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Edgardo Vega Yunqué, writer, Puerto Rican and New Yorker, was 72. His novels captured the crazy glory of this city and its people, with jazzy riffs and elegant solos that flowed with rhythm. His words could dazzle, amuse and even infuriate. He forged worlds filled with memorable characters. Full Story

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Robert Giroux, Publisher, Dies at 94

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Robert Giroux, an editor who introduced and nurtured some of the major authors of the 20th century and who rose to join one of the nation's most distinguished publishing houses as a partner, making it Farrar, Straus & Giroux, died Friday in Tinton Falls, N.J. Full Story

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Tad Mosel Dies at 86

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Tad Mosel, a leading writer of live television dramas in the 1950s who won a Pulitzer Prize for "All the Way Home," his 1960 Broadway dramatization of James Agee's novel "A Death in the Family," has died. Full Story

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Jeannette Eyerly Dies at 100

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Jeannette Eyerly, one of the first writers for young adults to deal with themes like unwanted pregnancy, alcoholism and drugs, died on Aug. 18 at her home in Des Moines. Full Story
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Ahmed Faraz Dies at 77

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The Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, who died on Monday night after kidney problems, has been buried in Islamabad. Full Story

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Executive and Author Dave Freeman Dies at 47

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Dave Freeman, an advertising agency executive who co-wrote "100 Things to Do Before You Die," an adventure-seeking and often unconventional travel guide that personified the way he lived his life, has died. Full Story

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Laurence Urdang, Lexicographer, Dies at 81

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Mr. Urdang was a prolific lexicographer who had a hand in more than 100 dictionaries and other reference books. Full Story

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Mario Rigoni Stern Dies at 86

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Like his compatriot Primo Levi, the Italian writer Mario Rigoni Stern, who has died aged 86, was the author of a much-admired bestselling memoir about his grim experiences during the second world war. Full Story

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L. Rust Hills, Fiction Editor at Esquire, Dies at 83

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Mr. Hills was a staunch advocate of contemporary American literature who, as Esquire's curmudgeonly fiction editor, published work by scores of the country's finest writers. Full Story

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Theodore Solotaroff, Founder of New American Review, Dies at 80

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Theodore Solotaroff, who in 1967 started The New American Review as a highly unusual showcase for a rising generation of writers, including Philip Roth, William H. Gass and Mordechai Richler in just the first issue, died on Friday at his home in East Quogue, N.Y. He was 80. Full Story

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Mahmoud Darwish Dies at 67

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Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank on Tuesday... Full Story

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Illustrator Pauline Baynes Dies at 85

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Witty and inventive children's book illustrator famed for her Narnia drawings. Full Story

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Pierre Beres, Tenacious Book Collector, Dies at 95

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When the manuscript of Louis-Ferdinand Céline's "Journey to the End of the Night" turned up for sale in 2001, no one in the world of antiquarian bookselling needed to ask who had discovered this rarity, missing for decades. It could only have been Pierre Berès, the king of French booksellers, friend to Pablo Picasso and Éluard, publisher of Barthes and Aragon, a man renowned for his taste and connoisseurship, his vast financial resources and his ruthlessness in the pursuit of the rare and the beautiful. Full Story

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and combative literary struggles gained the force of prophecy as he revealed the heavy afflictions of Soviet Communism in some of the most powerful works of the 20th century, died late on Sunday at the age of 89 in Moscow. Full Story

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