Sheldon, Sidney (1917—)
By the time he wrote his first book at age fifty-three, Sidney Sheldon had already had a substantial impact on popular culture via the creation of successful screenplays...
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Sidney Sheldon, who won awards in three careers _ Broadway theater, movies and television _ then at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world ...
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Jan. 1_A.I. Bezzerides, 98, a Turkey-born novelist-screenwriter best known for film noir classics such as "Kiss Me Deadly" and "On Dangerous Ground," in Los Angeles.Jan. 2_Teddy Kollek, 95, the for...
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Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson outlived her husband, Lyndon, by more than 35 years, expanding on her White House efforts to carve her own legacy as an environmentalist.When she died July 11 at...
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World War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in the Vietnam era.Vonnegut turned his ordeal as a ...
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Sheldon, Sidney (1917—)
Best-selling author Sidney Sheldon dies of pneumonia complications at 89
