The novelist died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound two weeks after learning his novel was to be made into a film.

When the novelist died in 1991, he left behind a collection of 3000 volumes, made valuable by the wealth of annotation he left in their margins and endpapers.

Provisionally entitled "Remember This House," the book was not completed before the prize-winning, Harlem-born essayist and novelist died of cancer at the age of 63 in France.

It was not much later, on May 16, 1980, that the novelist died at the Writers' Mansion of Mogoşoaia Palace.

The novelist and lawyer Louis Auchincloss died last night, at the age of ninety-two.

The great novelist and journalist Winifred Holtby wrote the novel in 1934 and died in 1935, only for it to be published in 1936 and become a huge success.

Louis L'Amour Is Dead The novelist, who chronicled the American frontier in more than 100 books, died of cancer in Los Angeles.

The American poet, novelist, and journalist Stephen Crane died there on 15 June 1900 of tuberculosis.

The novelist and children's writer Annie Keary died in the town in 1879.

The Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate José Saramago died earlier today, at the age of eighty-seven.