<p>Tony Horwitz, author of the book 'Confederates in the Attic'&nbsp;about US Civil War reenactors and other bestsellers, has died at the age of 60.</p>

<p>Horwitz, who won a Pulitzer Prize with The Wall Street Journal before becoming an author of historical non-fiction, died suddenly in Washington while touring for his latest book.</p>

<p>His publisher, Penguin Press, said Horwitz had died on Monday of an apparent heart attack.</p>

<p>As a Wall Street Journal reporter, Horwitz won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for stories he wrote about income inequality and working conditions in low-wage America.</p>

<p>His national bestseller 'Confederates in the Attic'&nbsp;about the men and women who reenact battles from the 1861-65 Civil War was published in 1998.</p>

<p>Horwitz' latest book, 'Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide,'&nbsp;about the 1850s travels of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted -- designer of New York's Central Park -- was published this month.</p>

<p>Among his other works were 'Midnight Rising'&nbsp;about the pre-Civil War abolitionist John Brown and 'Blue Latitudes'&nbsp;about Captain James Cook.</p>

<p>A native of Washington, Horwitz, who was married to Geraldine Brooks, also a successful novelist, lived in Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.</p>


Tony Horwitz, author of the book 'Confederates in the Attic' about US Civil War reenactors and other bestsellers, has died at the age of 60. Horwitz, who won a Pulitzer Prize with The Wall Street Journal before becoming an author of historical non-fiction, died suddenly in Washington while touring for his latest book.

Tony Horwitz, author of the book 'Confederates in the Attic' about US Civil War reenactors and other bestsellers, has died at the age of 60. Horwitz, who won a Pulitzer Prize with The Wall Street Journal before becoming an author of historical non-fiction, died suddenly in Washington while touring for his latest book. His publisher, Penguin Press, said Horwitz had died on Monday of an apparent heart attack. As a Wall Street Journal reporter, Horwitz won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for stories he wrote about income inequality and working conditions in low-wage America. His national bestseller 'Confederates in the Attic' about the men and women who reenact battles from the 1861-65 Civil War was published in 1998. Horwitz' latest book, 'Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide,' about the 1850s travels of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted -- designer of New York's Central Park -- was published this month. Among his other works were 'Midnight Rising' about the pre-Civil War abolitionist John Brown and 'Blue Latitudes' about Captain James Cook. A native of Washington, Horwitz, who was married to Geraldine Brooks, also a successful novelist, lived in Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.

Pulitzer prize-winning author Tony Horwitz dead at 60

<p>Author Judith Kerr,&nbsp;who&nbsp;enchanted generations of children with simply illustrated tales such as 'The&nbsp;Tiger&nbsp;Who&nbsp;Came&nbsp;to&nbsp;Tea'&nbsp;and 'Mog the Forgetful Cat', has died at the age of 95.</p>

<p>The death of one of the most popular authors of children's books in the 20th Century was announced by her publisher, Harper Collins, which said Kerr had died after a short illness. It did not specify a cause.</p>

<p>"It has been the greatest honour and privilege to know and publish Judith Kerr," said Ann-Janine Murtagh, executive publisher of HarperCollins Children’s Books.</p>

<p>"She&nbsp;came&nbsp;to visit our offices frequently - always bringing her books in person; often arriving on the No 9 bus and leaving us all full of laughter and in awe of her astonishing zest for life."</p>

<p>Kerr,&nbsp;who&nbsp;left Germany with her family just before the Nazis&nbsp;came&nbsp;to power, wrote and illustrated 35 books that sold millions of copies around the world, including 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit'.</p>

<p>But none was more celebrated than her first about the havoc caused by a surprise visitor's enormous appetite. The&nbsp;Tiger&nbsp;Who&nbsp;Came&nbsp;to&nbsp;Tea&nbsp;tells the story of a little girl and her mother&nbsp;who&nbsp;is having&nbsp;tea&nbsp;at home when a friendly&nbsp;tiger&nbsp;arrives unannounced eats all the food and then leaves, never to return.</p>

<p>Kerr told Reuters in 2015 that when her daughter Tacy was a toddler, the girl would often say ''talk the&nbsp;tiger''. Years later, when both of her children were at school and she was wondering what to do next, she hit upon the idea of a book.</p>

<p>It was published in 1968 to critical acclaim and has been a bestseller ever since, with Mog the Forgetful Cat following in 1970, the first of a long series.</p>

<p>Kerr was often asked whether the&nbsp;tiger&nbsp;has a hidden meaning, and some people have suggested it might represent Hitler or the Nazis, invading her home and stealing her possessions. Kerr dismissed this, saying the idea for the&nbsp;tiger&nbsp;simply&nbsp;came&nbsp;from a visit to the zoo with Tacy, and the creature was harmless.</p>

<p>"I never think about telling small children what to think," she told Reuters in 2015.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Kerr was born in Berlin and her family left Germany in 1933 to escape the rise of the Nazi Party and&nbsp;came&nbsp;to Britain via Paris.</p>

<p>The family's struggle to get by as impoverished refugees in Paris and then wartime London formed the subject of Kerr’s autobiographical trilogy that started with When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, published in 1971.</p>

<p>The book has been translated into many languages and taught to school children as an introduction to a dark chapter of history. It won the prestigious Youth Book Prize in Germany, and in 1993 a school was named after Kerr in her native Berlin.</p>

<p>Kerr said that as she had got older she had thought more often about the Jewish children from her generation&nbsp;who&nbsp;perished in the Holocaust, and of the lives, they might have lived.</p>

<p>"If you’ve got a life that so many people didn’t have, you can’t waste it," she told Reuters.</p>

<p>As a young woman, Kerr worked as a textile designer, art&nbsp;teacher, and scriptwriter at the BBC before taking time out from work to raise her two children with her husband Tom.</p>

<p>Kerr never stopped working. Last week, she was named as an illustrator of the year at the British Book Awards.</p>

<p>Her most recent title 'Mummy Time'&nbsp;was published last year, touching on concerns that parents are too obsessed with technology.</p>

<p>The book is about a mum distracted by her phone in the park while her toddler goes on adventures.</p>

<p>Kerr's latest book 'The Curse of the School Rabbit'&nbsp;is due to be published next month.</p>

<p>She is survived by her two children and grandchildren.</p>


Author Judith Kerr, who enchanted generations of children with simply illustrated tales such as 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' and 'Mog the Forgetful Cat', has died at the age of 95.

Author Judith Kerr, who enchanted generations of children with simply illustrated tales such as 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' and 'Mog the Forgetful Cat', has died at the age of 95. The death of one of the most popular authors of children's books in the 20th Century was announced by her publisher, Harper Collins, which said Kerr had died after a short illness. It did not specify a cause. "It has been the greatest honour and privilege to know and publish Judith Kerr," said Ann-Janine Murtagh, executive publisher of HarperCollins Children’s Books. "She came to visit our offices frequently - always bringing her books in person; often arriving on the No 9 bus and leaving us all full of laughter and in awe of her astonishing zest for life." Kerr, who left Germany with her family just before the Nazis came to power, wrote and illustrated 35 books that sold millions of copies around the world, including 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit'. But none was more celebrated than her first about the havoc caused by a surprise visitor's enormous appetite. The Tiger Who Came to Tea tells the story of a little girl and her mother who is having tea at home when a friendly tiger arrives unannounced eats all the food and then leaves, never to return. Kerr told Reuters in 2015 that when her daughter Tacy was a toddler, the girl would often say ''talk the tiger''. Years later, when both of her children were at school and she was wondering what to do next, she hit upon the idea of a book. It was published in 1968 to critical acclaim and has been a bestseller ever since, with Mog the Forgetful Cat following in 1970, the first of a long series. Kerr was often asked whether the tiger has a hidden meaning, and some people have suggested it might represent Hitler or the Nazis, invading her home and stealing her possessions. Kerr dismissed this, saying the idea for the tiger simply came from a visit to the zoo with Tacy, and the creature was harmless. "I never think about telling small children what to think," she told Reuters in 2015. Kerr was born in Berlin and her family left Germany in 1933 to escape the rise of the Nazi Party and came to Britain via Paris. The family's struggle to get by as impoverished refugees in Paris and then wartime London formed the subject of Kerr’s autobiographical trilogy that started with When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, published in 1971. The book has been translated into many languages and taught to school children as an introduction to a dark chapter of history. It won the prestigious Youth Book Prize in Germany, and in 1993 a school was named after Kerr in her native Berlin. Kerr said that as she had got older she had thought more often about the Jewish children from her generation who perished in the Holocaust, and of the lives, they might have lived. "If you’ve got a life that so many people didn’t have, you can’t waste it," she told Reuters. As a young woman, Kerr worked as a textile designer, art teacher, and scriptwriter at the BBC before taking time out from work to raise her two children with her husband Tom. Kerr never stopped working. Last week, she was named as an illustrator of the year at the British Book Awards. Her most recent title 'Mummy Time' was published last year, touching on concerns that parents are too obsessed with technology. The book is about a mum distracted by her phone in the park while her toddler goes on adventures. Kerr's latest book 'The Curse of the School Rabbit' is due to be published next month. She is survived by her two children and grandchildren.

'Tiger Who Came to Tea' author Judith Kerr dies aged 95

<p>Veteran stand-up comedian Sammy Shore died at the age of 92 on Sunday.</p>

<p>Sammy, in his 70-year-long career, founded The Comedy Store in partnership with Rudy De Luca, according to The Hollywood Reporter.</p>

<p>Expressing grief, The Comedy Store's Facebook page posted, "Words can`t express how much his comedic gift, friendship, and beneficence will be missed. The bright light he shone and the laughter he brought into the lives of everyone he touched will never dim. There is only one 'Brother Sam'!"</p>

<p>His son Pauly Shore, who is also a comedian, paid his tribute on Twitter.</p>

<p>"Dad, you lived an amazing life and I`m so proud to say you are my father. When you're in heaven I'll be killing the crowds night after night and carrying on your legacy. Love you dad. Rest in peace," he wrote.</p>

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<p>The comedian performed in many one-man shows and made cameos in films including 'Jerry Lewis the bellboy', 'Mel Brooks', 'Life Stinks'&nbsp;and television series 'Sanford and Son'.</p>

<p>According to the Facebook post, he was most proud of his appearance on the 'Ed Sullivan Show'.</p>

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<p>Sammy also produced comedy albums such as, 'Brother Sam', 'Come Heal With Me', and '70 Sucks'.</p>

<p>He also penned three books but was unfortunately not able to complete his last book called 'Last Comic Sitting'.<br />
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Veteran stand-up comedian Sammy Shore died at the age of 92 on Sunday. Sammy, in his 70-year-long career, founded The Comedy Store in partnership with Rudy De Luca, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Veteran stand-up comedian Sammy Shore died at the age of 92 on Sunday. Sammy, in his 70-year-long career, founded The Comedy Store in partnership with Rudy De Luca, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Expressing grief, The Comedy Store's Facebook page posted, "Words can`t express how much his comedic gift, friendship, and beneficence will be missed. The bright light he shone and the laughter he brought into the lives of everyone he touched will never dim. There is only one 'Brother Sam'!" His son Pauly Shore, who is also a comedian, paid his tribute on Twitter. "Dad, you lived an amazing life and I`m so proud to say you are my father. When you're in heaven I'll be killing the crowds night after night and carrying on your legacy. Love you dad. Rest in peace," he wrote. Dad, you lived an amazing life and I'm so proud to say that you are my father. When you're in heaven I'll be killing the crowds night after night and carrying on your legacy. Love you Dad. Rest in peace. Your son and fellow stand up comic, Love, Pauly#thecomedystore pic.twitter.com/Uw9K3qtKFr — Pauly Shore (@PaulyShore) May 18, 2019 × The comedian performed in many one-man shows and made cameos in films including 'Jerry Lewis the bellboy', 'Mel Brooks', 'Life Stinks' and television series 'Sanford and Son'. According to the Facebook post, he was most proud of his appearance on the 'Ed Sullivan Show'. × Sammy also produced comedy albums such as, 'Brother Sam', 'Come Heal With Me', and '70 Sucks'. He also penned three books but was unfortunately not able to complete his last book called 'Last Comic Sitting'.

Stand-up comedian Sammy Shore dies at 92

We talked with Mr. Walter Andersen, Author & Academician from Virginia over Indian Lok Sabha Election 2019. Watch this exclusive talk.

LS Polls 2019: Watch exclusive talk with Mr. Walter Andersen, Author & Academician from Virginia

<p>Looks like actor Chris Pratt and author Katherine Schwarzenegger are all set to take their relationship to the next level.</p>

<p>The duo, who <a href="http://www.wionews.com/entertainment/guardians-of-the-galaxy-star-chris-pratt-is-now-engaged-to-girlfriend-katherine-schwarzenegger-190376">announced their engagement </a>two days ago, "already has some inklings about what they want their wedding to be like," a source told E! News.</p>

<p>According to the source, Katherine and Chris prefer a summer wedding and are looking for a suitable date.</p>

<p>"They are thinking about Martha's Vineyard which is a special place for Katherine and where she spent a lot of time growing up. Chris wants her to have her perfect day and whatever she wants. It will be a big wedding and very traditional," the source added.</p>

<p>The portal also revealed that an engagement party and bridal shower for Katherine is in the offing.</p>

<p>On Monday, the 'Jurassic World' &nbsp;actor shared the news of his engagement on Instagram with a picture of him giving Katherine a peck on her cheek.</p>

<p>"Sweet Katherine, so happy you said yes! I`m thrilled to be marrying you. Proud to live boldly in faith with you. Here we go!" he captioned the photo.</p>

<p>The 29-year-old author uploaded the same picture one day later and wrote, "My sweet love. Wouldn' t want to live this life with anyone but you."</p>

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<p>Chris and Katherine were first spotted together in June during a romantic picnic in Santa Barbara and since then, these two have been inseparable.</p>

<p>Chris was earlier married to Anna Farris, and the two share a six-year-old son together, Jack. They called it quits in 2017 and finalised their divorce in November 2018.&nbsp;<br />
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Looks like actor Chris Pratt and author Katherine Schwarzenegger are all set to take their relationship to the next level. The duo, who announced their engagement two days ago, "already has some inklings about what they want their wedding to be like," a source told E!

Looks like actor Chris Pratt and author Katherine Schwarzenegger are all set to take their relationship to the next level. The duo, who announced their engagement two days ago, "already has some inklings about what they want their wedding to be like," a source told E! News. According to the source, Katherine and Chris prefer a summer wedding and are looking for a suitable date. "They are thinking about Martha's Vineyard which is a special place for Katherine and where she spent a lot of time growing up. Chris wants her to have her perfect day and whatever she wants. It will be a big wedding and very traditional," the source added. The portal also revealed that an engagement party and bridal shower for Katherine is in the offing. On Monday, the 'Jurassic World' actor shared the news of his engagement on Instagram with a picture of him giving Katherine a peck on her cheek. "Sweet Katherine, so happy you said yes! I`m thrilled to be marrying you. Proud to live boldly in faith with you. Here we go!" he captioned the photo. The 29-year-old author uploaded the same picture one day later and wrote, "My sweet love. Wouldn' t want to live this life with anyone but you." View this post on Instagram My sweet love. Wouldn’t want to live this life with anyone but you ♥️💍 A post shared by Katherine Schwarzenegger (@katherineschwarzenegger) on Jan 14, 2019 at 9:23am PST × Chris and Katherine were first spotted together in June during a romantic picnic in Santa Barbara and since then, these two have been inseparable. Chris was earlier married to Anna Farris, and the two share a six-year-old son together, Jack. They called it quits in 2017 and finalised their divorce in November 2018.

Chris Pratt, Katherine Schwarzenegger begin wedding preparations

<p>Tom Wolfe, an early practitioner of "new journalism" who captured the mood and culture of America across five decades with books including "The Bonfire of the Vanities," "The Right Stuff," and "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," has died at the age of 88, his agent said.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Wolfe, who had a knack for coining phrases such as "radical chic" and "the me decade," died on Monday of an unspecified infection in a New York City hospital, his agent, Lynn Nesbit, said in a phone interview on Tuesday.</p>

<p>Wolfe`s works - fiction and non-fiction alike - looked at realms ranging from the art world to Wall Street to 1960s hippie culture and touched on the issues of class, power, race, corruption, and sex.</p>

<p>"I think every living moment of a human being`s life unless the person is starving or in immediate danger of death in some other way, is controlled by a concern for status," Wolfe said in an interview.</p>

<p>Wolfe came up with "radical chic" to brand pretentious liberals, the "me decade" to sum up the self-indulgence of the 1970s and the right stuff&nbsp;to quantify intangible characteristics of the first U.S. astronauts and their test pilot predecessors.</p>

<p>He was never deterred by the fact that he often did not fit in with his research subjects, partly because he was such a sartorial dandy, known for his white suits.</p>

<p>Wolfe was in his mid-70s while hanging out with college kids and working on the novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons," and was a fairly conservative drug-free observer in a coat and tie while travelling with Ken Kesey and his LSD-dropping hippie tribe known as The Merry Pranksters for "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" in the `60s. By looking so out of place, he figured people would be more prone to explain things to him.</p>

<p>`NEW JOURNALISM`<br />
Wolfe started his writing career at the Springfield, Massachusetts, Union newspaper and also worked for the Washington Post, New York Herald-Tribune and New York magazine. He was present at the birth of what was known as "new journalism," a loose style that featured lots of dialogue and detail and allowed reporters to narrate and develop characters in a way more often associated with fiction.</p>

<p>One of the genre's defining moments came when Wolfe was having trouble meeting a deadline for a 1964 magazine story on the hot-rod car culture.</p>

<p>In frustration, he sent his editor a letter with his thoughts and reportage. The magazine ran it verbatim as "There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. "That led to a compilation of Wolfe`s magazine pieces, followed by "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," which captured the spirit of the psychedelic era during his time with Kesey, author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest," and his band of pranksters who helped spread the popularity of LSD in California. Written in a wild free-association style that disregarded rules of punctuation, it was filled with sentence fragments and used words like "skakkkkkkkkkkkkkk" and "wowwwwwww."</p>

<p>Wolfe`s style was not for everyone.</p>

<p>"The question is not only whether Tom Wolfe can be taken seriously but whether he can be taken at all," a leading magazine critic wrote in 1968. "He is irritating, but he did develop a new journalistic idiom that has brought relief from standard Middle-High Journalese."</p>

<p>Wolfe became fascinated with astronauts after Rolling Stone magazine assigned him to cover an Apollo program launch in 1972. Nine years later and in a more restrained style than some of his earlier works, he wrote "The Right Stuff" about the first seven U.S. astronauts and test pilot Chuck Yeager who came before them.</p>

<p>His first try at fiction was "The Bonfire of the Vanities" in 1987, which captured the cultural feel of free-wheeling Wall Street "masters of the universe" as well as his non-fiction books did. "Bonfire," a best-seller that was a much-revised version of a serial he wrote for Rolling Stone, portrayed class struggles in New York City against a backdrop of Wall Street ambition, racial stress, and yellow journalism.</p>

<p>New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday that Wolfe`s "wry wit and sharp observations defined an era of life in New York."</p>

<p>Wolfe followed with more novels - "A Man in Full" about race, big money and high society in Atlanta "I Am Charlotte Simmons," a tale of college high life, and "Back to Blood" about immigrants in Florida in 2012.</p>

<p>Wolfe complained that novelists did not bring enough reality to their books, and while bemoaning the state of American literature, offered himself as an exemplar of what it should be. That kindled rivalries with contemporaries Norman Mailer and John Updike, who Wolfe referred to as "two old piles of bones." John Irving angrily denounced Wolfe by saying, "I can`t read him because he`s such a bad writer."</p>

<p>Wolfe`s trademark was the white suit, often accessorised with a white hat and two-tone shoes. He admitted he liked the attention they brought him.</p>

<p>Wolfe was born March 2, 1930, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia, the son of an agronomist father and an arts-oriented mother. He was a star pitcher in high school and in college at Washington and Lee and unsuccessfully tried out for the New York Giants. Wolfe lived in New York with his wife, Sheila. He had two children.</p>


The American author of many novels and the one who had been a practitioner of New Journalism dead, told by his agent on phone interview.

Tom Wolfe, an early practitioner of "new journalism" who captured the mood and culture of America across five decades with books including "The Bonfire of the Vanities," "The Right Stuff," and "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," has died at the age of 88, his agent said. Wolfe, who had a knack for coining phrases such as "radical chic" and "the me decade," died on Monday of an unspecified infection in a New York City hospital, his agent, Lynn Nesbit, said in a phone interview on Tuesday. Wolfe`s works - fiction and non-fiction alike - looked at realms ranging from the art world to Wall Street to 1960s hippie culture and touched on the issues of class, power, race, corruption, and sex. "I think every living moment of a human being`s life unless the person is starving or in immediate danger of death in some other way, is controlled by a concern for status," Wolfe said in an interview. Wolfe came up with "radical chic" to brand pretentious liberals, the "me decade" to sum up the self-indulgence of the 1970s and the right stuff to quantify intangible characteristics of the first U.S. astronauts and their test pilot predecessors. He was never deterred by the fact that he often did not fit in with his research subjects, partly because he was such a sartorial dandy, known for his white suits. Wolfe was in his mid-70s while hanging out with college kids and working on the novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons," and was a fairly conservative drug-free observer in a coat and tie while travelling with Ken Kesey and his LSD-dropping hippie tribe known as The Merry Pranksters for "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" in the `60s. By looking so out of place, he figured people would be more prone to explain things to him. `NEW JOURNALISM` Wolfe started his writing career at the Springfield, Massachusetts, Union newspaper and also worked for the Washington Post, New York Herald-Tribune and New York magazine. He was present at the birth of what was known as "new journalism," a loose style that featured lots of dialogue and detail and allowed reporters to narrate and develop characters in a way more often associated with fiction. One of the genre's defining moments came when Wolfe was having trouble meeting a deadline for a 1964 magazine story on the hot-rod car culture. In frustration, he sent his editor a letter with his thoughts and reportage. The magazine ran it verbatim as "There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. "That led to a compilation of Wolfe`s magazine pieces, followed by "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," which captured the spirit of the psychedelic era during his time with Kesey, author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest," and his band of pranksters who helped spread the popularity of LSD in California. Written in a wild free-association style that disregarded rules of punctuation, it was filled with sentence fragments and used words like "skakkkkkkkkkkkkkk" and "wowwwwwww." Wolfe`s style was not for everyone. "The question is not only whether Tom Wolfe can be taken seriously but whether he can be taken at all," a leading magazine critic wrote in 1968. "He is irritating, but he did develop a new journalistic idiom that has brought relief from standard Middle-High Journalese." Wolfe became fascinated with astronauts after Rolling Stone magazine assigned him to cover an Apollo program launch in 1972. Nine years later and in a more restrained style than some of his earlier works, he wrote "The Right Stuff" about the first seven U.S. astronauts and test pilot Chuck Yeager who came before them. His first try at fiction was "The Bonfire of the Vanities" in 1987, which captured the cultural feel of free-wheeling Wall Street "masters of the universe" as well as his non-fiction books did. "Bonfire," a best-seller that was a much-revised version of a serial he wrote for Rolling Stone, portrayed class struggles in New York City against a backdrop of Wall Street ambition, racial stress, and yellow journalism. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday that Wolfe`s "wry wit and sharp observations defined an era of life in New York." Wolfe followed with more novels - "A Man in Full" about race, big money and high society in Atlanta "I Am Charlotte Simmons," a tale of college high life, and "Back to Blood" about immigrants in Florida in 2012. Wolfe complained that novelists did not bring enough reality to their books, and while bemoaning the state of American literature, offered himself as an exemplar of what it should be. That kindled rivalries with contemporaries Norman Mailer and John Updike, who Wolfe referred to as "two old piles of bones." John Irving angrily denounced Wolfe by saying, "I can`t read him because he`s such a bad writer." Wolfe`s trademark was the white suit, often accessorised with a white hat and two-tone shoes. He admitted he liked the attention they brought him. Wolfe was born March 2, 1930, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia, the son of an agronomist father and an arts-oriented mother. He was a star pitcher in high school and in college at Washington and Lee and unsuccessfully tried out for the New York Giants. Wolfe lived in New York with his wife, Sheila. He had two children.

'Bonfire of the Vanities' author Tom Wolfe dead at 88

<p>U.S. evangelist Billy Graham, who counseled presidents and preached to millions across the world from his native North Carolina to communist North Korea during his 70 years in the pulpit, died on Wednesday at the age of 99, a spokesman said.</p>

<p>Graham died at 8 a.m. EST (1300 GMT) at his home in Montreat, North Carolina, according to Jeremy Blume, a spokesman for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.</p>

<p>According to his ministry, he preached Christianity to more people than anyone else in history, reaching hundreds of millions of people either in person or via TV and satellite links.</p>

<p>Graham became the de facto White House chaplain to several U.S. presidents, most famously Richard Nixon. He also met with scores of world leaders and was the first noted evangelist to take his message behind the Iron Curtain.</p>

<p>&quot;He was probably the dominant religious leader of his era,&quot; said William Martin, author of &quot;A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story.&quot; &quot;No more than one or two popes, perhaps one or two other people, came close to what he achieved.&quot;</p>

<p>Graham found himself at times in controversy over his disapproving stand on gay rights, as well as over a secretly recorded conversation with Nixon in which the cleric complained that Jews had too much influence on the U.S. media. In the later years of his career he intentionally muted his political beliefs to focus on the Gospel.</p>

<p>Graham was no longer a close associate of presidents in recent years but many former U.S. leaders paid tribute on Wednesday. President Donald Trump said on Twitter: &quot;The GREAT Billy Graham is dead. There was nobody like him! He will be missed by Christians and all religions. A very special man.&quot;</p>

<p>In a rare trip away from his home in his later years, Graham had celebrated his 95th birthday on Nov. 7, 2013, at a hotel in Asheville, North Carolina, where some 800 guests, including Trump, business magnate Rupert Murdoch and television hostess Kathie Lee Gifford paid tribute.</p>

<p>The event featured a video of a sermon that his son Franklin said was Graham&#39;s last message to the nation. Graham had been working for a year on the video, which was aired on Fox News. In it, he said America was &quot;in great need of a spiritual awakening.&quot;</p>

<p>With his steely features and piercing blue eyes, Graham was a powerful figure when he preached in his prime, roaming the stage and hoisting a Bible as he declared Jesus Christ to be the only solution to humanity&#39;s problems.</p>

<p>In his heyday Graham had a thunderous, quick-burst speaking style that earned him the nickname &quot;God&#39;s Machine Gun.&quot; Through his &quot;Crusades for Christ,&quot; Graham sowed fields of devotion across the American heartland that would become fertile ground for the growth of the religious right&#39;s conservative political movement.</p>

<p><strong>MEDIA MASTERY</strong></p>

<p>His influence was fueled by an organization that carefully planned his religious campaigns, putting on international conferences and training seminars for evangelical leaders, Martin said.</p>

<p>Graham&#39;s mastery of the media was ground-breaking. In addition to radio and publishing, he used telephone lines, television and satellites to deliver his message to homes, churches and theaters around the world.</p>

<p>Some 77 million saw him preach in person while nearly 215 million more watched his crusades on television or through satellite link-ups, a Graham spokeswoman said.</p>

<p>Graham started meeting with presidents during the tenure of Harry Truman. He played golf with Gerald Ford, skinny-dipped in the White House pool with Lyndon Johnson, vacationed with George H.W. Bush and spent the night in the White House on Nixon&#39;s first day in office.</p>

<p>George W. Bush gave Graham credit for helping him rediscover his faith and in 2010, when it was difficult for Graham to travel, Barack Obama made the trip to the preacher&#39;s log cabin home in North Carolina&#39;s Blue Ridge Mountains.</p>

<p>Graham&#39;s ties to the White House were mutually beneficial. His reputation was enhanced as preacher to the presidents, while the politicians boosted their standing with religiously inclined voters.</p>

<p>&quot;Their personal lives - some of them - were difficult,&quot; Graham, a registered Democrat, told Time magazine in 2007 of his political acquaintances. &quot;But I loved them all. I admired them all. I knew that they had burdens beyond anything I could ever know or understand.&quot;</p>

<p>Graham&#39;s reputation took a hit because of Nixon after the release of 1972 White House tapes in which the two were heard making anti-Semitic comments. Graham later said he did not remember the conversation and apologized.</p>

<p>In the early half of his career, Graham often spoke his mind on social and political issues of the day, including his strong anti-communist sentiments. He dismissed Vietnam War protesters as attention-seekers and, while he eventually refused to hold segregated revival meetings, he did not take an active role in the 1960s civil rights movement.</p>

<p>But Graham&#39;s politics were not as overt as those of some religious leaders who came after him, such as Pat Robertson, who ran for president in 1988, and Jerry Falwell, co-founder of the Moral Majority, an organization whose purpose was to promote Christian-oriented politics.</p>

<p>As he grew older, Graham said he felt he had become too involved in some issues and shifted to a middle-of-the-road position in order to reach more people. He did, however, dive into the gay marriage issue in 2012 when he came out in support of a state amendment to ban same-sex marriages in North Carolina. He also met with Republican Mitt Romney in October 2012 and told him he supported Romney&#39;s run for the presidency.</p>

<p><strong>FROM FARM TO PULPIT</strong></p>

<p>William Franklin Graham was born on Nov. 7, 1918, into a Presbyterian family and was known as Billy Frank while growing up on a farm near Charlotte, North Carolina. As a teenager, he said he was mostly preoccupied with baseball and girls until he was moved by God after hearing a fiery revivalist in Charlotte.</p>

<p>After attending Bob Jones College, Graham ended up at a Bible school in Florida, where he would preach at his first revival, and was ordained in 1939 by a church in the Southern Baptist Convention. He received a scholarship to Wheaton College near Chicago, where he met Ruth Bell, whose parents were missionaries in China. They married in 1943.</p>

<p>Rather than work from a home church, Graham went on the road, preaching in tents and building a following. His breakthrough came with a 1949 Los Angeles tent crusade that was scheduled for three weeks but extended to eight because of the overflow crowds he attracted.</p>

<p>The success of the Los Angeles campaign and the fame it brought Graham was attributed to media magnate William Randolph Hearst, who had liked Graham&#39;s style and anti-communist stance so much that he ordered his newspapers to give Graham a boost.</p>

<p>Graham eventually outgrew tent revivals and would preach at some of the most famous venues in the world, such as Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden in New York and London&#39;s Wembley Stadium. He delivered sermons around the globe, including in remote African villages, China, North Korea, the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.</p>

<p>Liberals accused him of giving credibility to abusive governments while fundamentalist Christians criticized him for going to godless countries and promoting peaceful relations with them. Graham said he simply saw the trips as apolitical opportunities to win souls for Christ.</p>

<p>Graham concluded his career of religious campaigns in June 2005 in New York with a three-day stand that attracted more than 230,000 people, his organization said. He turned over his evangelical association to his son Franklin, who did not shy away from politics and frequently praised Trump once he became president.</p>

<p>Graham&#39;s other four children were also evangelists.</p>

<p>A funeral at a venue that holds about 2,300 people is planned for March 2 in front of the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, his organization said. It said he will be buried on library premises next to his wife, Ruth. She died on June 14, 2007. The couple had two sons and three daughters.</p>

<p>Graham&#39;s body will lie in repose next Monday and Tuesday at the Graham family house which is now at the library site, having been moved from its original location, also in Charlotte, said family spokesman Mark DeMoss.</p>

<p>When Graham began his ministry in 1950, he would preach under a tent he called a &ldquo;canvas cathedral,&quot; DeMoss said. He said having Graham&#39;s funeral service under a tent is a reminder of how his ministry began.</p>

<p>Graham himself &ldquo;personally approved the planning and details of the service some years ago,&quot; said DeMoss, speaking at a press conference in Charlotte on Wednesday night.</p>

<p><strong>REPUTATION</strong></p>

<p>Graham maintained his public integrity even as other TV star evangelists such as Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart were hit in the 1980s by financial and sex scandals. To keep his reputation pristine, Graham had a policy of never being alone with any woman other than Ruth.</p>

<p>Graham&#39;s closest presidential relationship was with Nixon, who offered him any government job he wanted - including ambassador to Israel. It turned out to be a painful relationship for Graham, who said Nixon and his circle misled him on the Watergate scandal.</p>

<p>Nixon aide H.R. Haldeman first mentioned Graham&#39;s anti-Semitic remarks in a 1994 book, which Graham strongly denied. But when audio tapes from the Nixon White House were released in 2002, Graham could be heard referring to Jews as pornographers and agreeing with Nixon that the U.S. media was dominated by liberal Jews and could send the United States &quot;down the drain.&quot;</p>

<p>Graham, who had a long history of supporting Israel, apologized again after the tapes&#39; release and said he had no recollection of the conversation.</p>

<p>&quot;If it wasn&#39;t on tape, I would not have believed it,&quot; Graham told Newsweek. &quot;I guess I was trying to please. I felt so badly about myself - I couldn&#39;t believe it. I went to a meeting with Jewish leaders and I told them I would crawl to them to ask their forgiveness.&quot;</p>

<p>The author of more than two dozen books with titles such as &quot;How to Be Born Again,&quot; Graham also ran the weekly &quot;Hour of Decision&quot; radio program broadcast around the world on Sundays for more than 50 years.</p>

<p>Graham helped bring religion into the television age. He first put together a television show, which was eventually syndicated, in 1951 and began live broadcasts of his revival meetings in 1957 from New York&#39;s Madison Square Garden.</p>

<p>In a 2011 Fox News interview, Graham was asked what he would do differently in his career.</p>

<p>&quot;I would study more. I would pray more, travel less, take less speaking engagements,&quot; he said. &quot;I took too many of them in too many places around the world. If I had it to do over again I&#39;d spend more time in meditation and prayer and just telling the Lord how much I love him.&quot;</p>

<p>In addition to suffering with Parkinson&#39;s disease for many years, Graham&#39;s health problems in his later years included a broken hip, a broken pelvis, prostate cancer and installation of a shunt in his brain to control excess fluid. He was hospitalized in 2011, 2012 and 2013 for respiratory problems.<br />
&nbsp;</p>


'He was probably the dominant religious leader of his era,' said William Martin, author of A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story. 'No more than one or two popes, perhaps one or two other people, came close to what he achieved'

U.S. evangelist Billy Graham, who counseled presidents and preached to millions across the world from his native North Carolina to communist North Korea during his 70 years in the pulpit, died on Wednesday at the age of 99, a spokesman said. Graham died at 8 a.m. EST (1300 GMT) at his home in Montreat, North Carolina, according to Jeremy Blume, a spokesman for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. According to his ministry, he preached Christianity to more people than anyone else in history, reaching hundreds of millions of people either in person or via TV and satellite links. Graham became the de facto White House chaplain to several U.S. presidents, most famously Richard Nixon. He also met with scores of world leaders and was the first noted evangelist to take his message behind the Iron Curtain. "He was probably the dominant religious leader of his era," said William Martin, author of "A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story." "No more than one or two popes, perhaps one or two other people, came close to what he achieved." Graham found himself at times in controversy over his disapproving stand on gay rights, as well as over a secretly recorded conversation with Nixon in which the cleric complained that Jews had too much influence on the U.S. media. In the later years of his career he intentionally muted his political beliefs to focus on the Gospel. Graham was no longer a close associate of presidents in recent years but many former U.S. leaders paid tribute on Wednesday. President Donald Trump said on Twitter: "The GREAT Billy Graham is dead. There was nobody like him! He will be missed by Christians and all religions. A very special man." In a rare trip away from his home in his later years, Graham had celebrated his 95th birthday on Nov. 7, 2013, at a hotel in Asheville, North Carolina, where some 800 guests, including Trump, business magnate Rupert Murdoch and television hostess Kathie Lee Gifford paid tribute. The event featured a video of a sermon that his son Franklin said was Graham's last message to the nation. Graham had been working for a year on the video, which was aired on Fox News. In it, he said America was "in great need of a spiritual awakening." With his steely features and piercing blue eyes, Graham was a powerful figure when he preached in his prime, roaming the stage and hoisting a Bible as he declared Jesus Christ to be the only solution to humanity's problems. In his heyday Graham had a thunderous, quick-burst speaking style that earned him the nickname "God's Machine Gun." Through his "Crusades for Christ," Graham sowed fields of devotion across the American heartland that would become fertile ground for the growth of the religious right's conservative political movement. MEDIA MASTERY His influence was fueled by an organization that carefully planned his religious campaigns, putting on international conferences and training seminars for evangelical leaders, Martin said. Graham's mastery of the media was ground-breaking. In addition to radio and publishing, he used telephone lines, television and satellites to deliver his message to homes, churches and theaters around the world. Some 77 million saw him preach in person while nearly 215 million more watched his crusades on television or through satellite link-ups, a Graham spokeswoman said. Graham started meeting with presidents during the tenure of Harry Truman. He played golf with Gerald Ford, skinny-dipped in the White House pool with Lyndon Johnson, vacationed with George H.W. Bush and spent the night in the White House on Nixon's first day in office. George W. Bush gave Graham credit for helping him rediscover his faith and in 2010, when it was difficult for Graham to travel, Barack Obama made the trip to the preacher's log cabin home in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. Graham's ties to the White House were mutually beneficial. His reputation was enhanced as preacher to the presidents, while the politicians boosted their standing with religiously inclined voters. "Their personal lives - some of them - were difficult," Graham, a registered Democrat, told Time magazine in 2007 of his political acquaintances. "But I loved them all. I admired them all. I knew that they had burdens beyond anything I could ever know or understand." Graham's reputation took a hit because of Nixon after the release of 1972 White House tapes in which the two were heard making anti-Semitic comments. Graham later said he did not remember the conversation and apologized. In the early half of his career, Graham often spoke his mind on social and political issues of the day, including his strong anti-communist sentiments. He dismissed Vietnam War protesters as attention-seekers and, while he eventually refused to hold segregated revival meetings, he did not take an active role in the 1960s civil rights movement. But Graham's politics were not as overt as those of some religious leaders who came after him, such as Pat Robertson, who ran for president in 1988, and Jerry Falwell, co-founder of the Moral Majority, an organization whose purpose was to promote Christian-oriented politics. As he grew older, Graham said he felt he had become too involved in some issues and shifted to a middle-of-the-road position in order to reach more people. He did, however, dive into the gay marriage issue in 2012 when he came out in support of a state amendment to ban same-sex marriages in North Carolina. He also met with Republican Mitt Romney in October 2012 and told him he supported Romney's run for the presidency. FROM FARM TO PULPIT William Franklin Graham was born on Nov. 7, 1918, into a Presbyterian family and was known as Billy Frank while growing up on a farm near Charlotte, North Carolina. As a teenager, he said he was mostly preoccupied with baseball and girls until he was moved by God after hearing a fiery revivalist in Charlotte. After attending Bob Jones College, Graham ended up at a Bible school in Florida, where he would preach at his first revival, and was ordained in 1939 by a church in the Southern Baptist Convention. He received a scholarship to Wheaton College near Chicago, where he met Ruth Bell, whose parents were missionaries in China. They married in 1943. Rather than work from a home church, Graham went on the road, preaching in tents and building a following. His breakthrough came with a 1949 Los Angeles tent crusade that was scheduled for three weeks but extended to eight because of the overflow crowds he attracted. The success of the Los Angeles campaign and the fame it brought Graham was attributed to media magnate William Randolph Hearst, who had liked Graham's style and anti-communist stance so much that he ordered his newspapers to give Graham a boost. Graham eventually outgrew tent revivals and would preach at some of the most famous venues in the world, such as Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden in New York and London's Wembley Stadium. He delivered sermons around the globe, including in remote African villages, China, North Korea, the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Liberals accused him of giving credibility to abusive governments while fundamentalist Christians criticized him for going to godless countries and promoting peaceful relations with them. Graham said he simply saw the trips as apolitical opportunities to win souls for Christ. Graham concluded his career of religious campaigns in June 2005 in New York with a three-day stand that attracted more than 230,000 people, his organization said. He turned over his evangelical association to his son Franklin, who did not shy away from politics and frequently praised Trump once he became president. Graham's other four children were also evangelists. A funeral at a venue that holds about 2,300 people is planned for March 2 in front of the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, his organization said. It said he will be buried on library premises next to his wife, Ruth. She died on June 14, 2007. The couple had two sons and three daughters. Graham's body will lie in repose next Monday and Tuesday at the Graham family house which is now at the library site, having been moved from its original location, also in Charlotte, said family spokesman Mark DeMoss. When Graham began his ministry in 1950, he would preach under a tent he called a “canvas cathedral," DeMoss said. He said having Graham's funeral service under a tent is a reminder of how his ministry began. Graham himself “personally approved the planning and details of the service some years ago," said DeMoss, speaking at a press conference in Charlotte on Wednesday night. REPUTATION Graham maintained his public integrity even as other TV star evangelists such as Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart were hit in the 1980s by financial and sex scandals. To keep his reputation pristine, Graham had a policy of never being alone with any woman other than Ruth. Graham's closest presidential relationship was with Nixon, who offered him any government job he wanted - including ambassador to Israel. It turned out to be a painful relationship for Graham, who said Nixon and his circle misled him on the Watergate scandal. Nixon aide H.R. Haldeman first mentioned Graham's anti-Semitic remarks in a 1994 book, which Graham strongly denied. But when audio tapes from the Nixon White House were released in 2002, Graham could be heard referring to Jews as pornographers and agreeing with Nixon that the U.S. media was dominated by liberal Jews and could send the United States "down the drain." Graham, who had a long history of supporting Israel, apologized again after the tapes' release and said he had no recollection of the conversation. "If it wasn't on tape, I would not have believed it," Graham told Newsweek. "I guess I was trying to please. I felt so badly about myself - I couldn't believe it. I went to a meeting with Jewish leaders and I told them I would crawl to them to ask their forgiveness." The author of more than two dozen books with titles such as "How to Be Born Again," Graham also ran the weekly "Hour of Decision" radio program broadcast around the world on Sundays for more than 50 years. Graham helped bring religion into the television age. He first put together a television show, which was eventually syndicated, in 1951 and began live broadcasts of his revival meetings in 1957 from New York's Madison Square Garden. In a 2011 Fox News interview, Graham was asked what he would do differently in his career. "I would study more. I would pray more, travel less, take less speaking engagements," he said. "I took too many of them in too many places around the world. If I had it to do over again I'd spend more time in meditation and prayer and just telling the Lord how much I love him." In addition to suffering with Parkinson's disease for many years, Graham's health problems in his later years included a broken hip, a broken pelvis, prostate cancer and installation of a shunt in his brain to control excess fluid. He was hospitalized in 2011, 2012 and 2013 for respiratory problems.

US: Billy Graham, 'preacher to presidents', dies at 99

<p>ER&nbsp;Braithwaite, a Guyanese novelist, teacher&nbsp;and diplomat, died at the age of 104 in Rockville, Maryland, on Monday.</p>

<p>The author of &#39;To Sir, With Love&#39; was also a pilot in Britain&rsquo;s Royal Air Force during World War II, and served in the 1960s as the newly independent Guyana&rsquo;s first representative at the United Nations.</p>

<p>His novel, &#39;To Sir, With Love&#39; was critically acclaimed and was so loved by the people that it was made into a 1967 British drama film of the same title, starring Sidney Poitier and Lulu.</p>

<p>He had many other famous books to his credit, namely &#39;Paid Servant&#39;, &#39;A Kind of Homecoming&#39;, &#39;Choice of Straws&#39;, &#39;Reluctant Neighbors&#39; and &#39;Honorary White&#39;.</p>

<p>Braithwaite was best known for his stories about racial discrimination against black people, especially in South Africa and the United States -- the two countries where he lived much of his life.</p>

<p>He studied at Queen&rsquo;s College, Guyana, and at the City College of New York, and moved to Britain after working at an oil refinery in Aruba, off the coast of Venezuela.</p>

<p>In 1940, he volunteered for service in the Royal Air Force.</p>

<p>Braithwaite received a master&rsquo;s degree in physics from Cambridge University in 1949. After leaving his teaching job, he worked with Caribbean immigrant families in London.</p>

<p>Along with his writing, Braithwaite had a record of public service. From 1960 to 1963, he was a human rights officer at the World Veterans Federation, based in Paris; from 1963 to 1966, he was a lecturer and education consultant at Unesco, also in Paris.</p>

<p>From 1967 to 1969, he served as the first permanent representative of Guyana to the United Nations. He was later the country&rsquo;s ambassador to Venezuela, according to New York Times.</p>

<p>He also taught at New York University, Florida State University, among other institutions.</p>

<p>At the age of 100, Braithwaite was conferred with a national award -- the Cacique Crown of Honour -- by then-president Donald Ramotar.</p>

<p>(WION)</p>


He was best known for his stories about racial discrimination against black people

ER Braithwaite, a Guyanese novelist, teacher and diplomat, died at the age of 104 in Rockville, Maryland, on Monday. The author of 'To Sir, With Love' was also a pilot in Britain’s Royal Air Force during World War II, and served in the 1960s as the newly independent Guyana’s first representative at the United Nations. His novel, 'To Sir, With Love' was critically acclaimed and was so loved by the people that it was made into a 1967 British drama film of the same title, starring Sidney Poitier and Lulu. He had many other famous books to his credit, namely 'Paid Servant', 'A Kind of Homecoming', 'Choice of Straws', 'Reluctant Neighbors' and 'Honorary White'. Braithwaite was best known for his stories about racial discrimination against black people, especially in South Africa and the United States -- the two countries where he lived much of his life. He studied at Queen’s College, Guyana, and at the City College of New York, and moved to Britain after working at an oil refinery in Aruba, off the coast of Venezuela. In 1940, he volunteered for service in the Royal Air Force. Braithwaite received a master’s degree in physics from Cambridge University in 1949. After leaving his teaching job, he worked with Caribbean immigrant families in London. Along with his writing, Braithwaite had a record of public service. From 1960 to 1963, he was a human rights officer at the World Veterans Federation, based in Paris; from 1963 to 1966, he was a lecturer and education consultant at Unesco, also in Paris. From 1967 to 1969, he served as the first permanent representative of Guyana to the United Nations. He was later the country’s ambassador to Venezuela, according to New York Times. He also taught at New York University, Florida State University, among other institutions. At the age of 100, Braithwaite was conferred with a national award -- the Cacique Crown of Honour -- by then-president Donald Ramotar. (WION)

ER Braithwaite, author of 'To Sir, With Love', dies at 104

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