Malachy McCourt says that his brother Frank McCourt,. author of Angela's Ashes is gravely ill with meningitis and is not expected to live. The 78-year-old "Angela's Ashes" author, who has been fighting skin cancer, is in a hospice and...
Topics: meningitis

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Pioneering writer and playwright has died of a ruptured aorta. She was only 54. The Writers Guild issued a statement about her passing. When she joined the Writers Guild of America, West in 1975, Mason continued the legacy begun in 1953 by Helen...
Topics: judi-ann-mason, judi-ann-mason-dead, screenwriting

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The Guardian reports that Britain's Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has announced a new poetry prize celebrating poetry. Carol Ann Duffy's donation of her yearly £5,750 stipend as laureate to the Poetry Society set-up the prize. The prize will be..
Topics: poetry, ted-hughes-award

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In Part 1 of our interview with five time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Peter Lance, Peter talked about how U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald tried to kill the new trade paperback version of his bestselling 9/11 expose, Triple Cross: How...
Topics: journalism, peter-lance

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Five time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Peter Lance got a real surprise when it came time to publish the tradepaperback version of his bestselling 9/11 expose, Triple Cross: How BinLaden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green...
Topics: journalism, peter-lance

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