Arthur M Schlesinger Jr, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century, has died, his son said. He was 89. Schlesinger suffered a heart attack while dining out with family members on February 28 in Manhattan.
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/ 6 November 2006
William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose explorations of the darkest corners of the human mind and experience were charged by his own near-suicidal demons, died on November 1 in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. He was 81. Styron’s daughter, Alexandra, said the author died of pneumonia.
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/ 13 February 2006
Jaws author Peter Benchley, the man who made the ocean a scary place for millions of fans, was actually quite fond of sharks, an image that seems as jarring as Alfred Hitchcock, the director of Psycho, enjoying a nice, relaxing shower.
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/ 21 December 2004
Harry Potter readers, here’s an extra special holiday gift: JK Rowling announced that she has completed the sixth Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The book will go on sale in Britain and the United States on July 16, publishers said on Tuesday. Rowling has said that one of her characters will not survive her sixth book.
George Plimpton, the author, actor and literary patron whose countless famous friends have included Ernest Hemingway, Robert Kennedy and Warren Beatty, has agreed to write his memoirs.
Leon Uris, whose best-selling novel Exodus offered the world a heroic tale of the founding of Israel and an image of Jews as muscular, sunburned avengers, has died at 78.