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The Naked and the Dead's author the great Norman Miller was hospitalized for difficulties in breathing. The 84 year old writer had an asthama attack and spent 5 days in a hospital at Bostan where numerous tests were being conducted. The 2 time...

The long-awaited biography of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, written and compiled by Carl Bernstein, the investigative reporter of Watergate fame, will be released on June 19. A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, is a 650 page book....

David Halberstam, the author who won Pulitzer Prize for his reports on the war was killed in a car crash yesterday. He was 73. Halberstam was a passenger in a car that was broadsided by another vehicle. The accident occurred around 10:30 a.m., in Menlo...

Literary awards are nothing new for Philip Roth, but the latest in his bag is extremely special. Yes, he has been honored with the first ever PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, a $40,000 prize. The prize is named after the late...

It's sad that the loss of such an endowed and munificent individual has left us in woe. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and court philosopher has passed away. The 89 years old of the Kennedy administration, who remained...