NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou, who first met Nelson Mandela in the early 1960s, praised him as a great man worthy of comparison to another icon she knew, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “Our planet has lost a friend,” the author and poet said Friday during a telephone interview. Angelou was a journalist […]
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Maya Angelou Accepts Mailer Center Lifetime Award
NEW YORK (AP) — Her body weak, her voice rich and strong, Maya Angelou sang, lectured and reminisced as she accepted a lifetime achievement award Thursday night from the Norman Mailer Center. The 85-year-old author, poet, dancer and actress was honored during a benefit gala at the New York Public Library, the annual gathering organized […]
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Best-selling Author Tom Clancy has Died at Age 66
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Clancy, whose high-tech, Cold War thrillers such as “The Hunt for Red October” and “Patriot Games” made him the most widely read and influential military novelist of his time, has died. He was 66. Penguin Group (USA) said Wednesday that Clancy had died Tuesday in Baltimore. The publisher did not […]