Nuala O'Faolain, an Irish journalist who mined a rich vein of longing and childhood suffering in two midlife memoirs and an acclaimed first novel, "My Dream of You," died on Friday night in Dublin. She was 68 and lived in Barrtra, County Clare, Ireland, and Manhattan.
I absolutely adored her memoir "Are You Somebody?", but never made it through her first novel. Perhaps I will give it another go.
Is í féin atá ag teacht anois.
Yossi Harel, who renamed the rickety ship he commanded Exodus 1947 and sailed it to legend as a symbol of the righteousness of the mission by Jews to settle Palestine in the face of British opposition, died Saturday at his home in Tel Aviv. He was 90.
Charlton Heston has passed away at the age of 84.
There seems to be some confusion over his date of birth..or his age. Some sites have him born in 1923, some in 1924 - all seem to say he was 84. Since he was born in October, and this is 2008, he must have been born in 1923, right?
Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday, his former colleague said.Dith, 65, died at a New Jersey hospital Sunday morning of pancreatic cancer, according to Sydney Schanberg, his former colleague at The New York Times. Dith had been diagnosed almost three months ago.
Conservative author and editor William F. Buckley Jr. died today, his assistant told the Associated Press Wednesday. He was 82.National Review
He was truly one of a kind, and will be missed. Hopefully, his spirit and ideas will live on.
He was a whack job, but you have to give him credit for his skill.