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Reynolds Price, a Literary Voice of the South, Dies at 77

Mr. Price, the novelist, poet and memoirist, found all the material he needed in the North Carolina he knew so well.

 

José Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Writer, Dies

José Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Writer, Dies

The Portugese writer, 87, was known as much for his unfaltering Communist views as for his surrealist, sardonic novels.

 

Famed author John Updike dies

Famed author John Updike dies

Author John Updike, regarded as one of the greatest and most prolific writers in modern American letters, has died, his publicist said.

 

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