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Amoz Oz poses in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Feb. 27, 2008.

Amos Oz, Israeli novelist who wrote of striving and struggle, dies at 79

May 9, 2019 at 6:56 p.m.

Amos Oz, one of Israel's most distinguished writers, whose fiction, memoirs and essays portrayed the private ambitions and public contradictions of a country struggling to find its footing while surrounded...

Barry Crimmins, comedian who transformed childhood trauma into advocacy, dies at 64

December 17, 2018 at 4:25 p.m.

Barry Crimmins, a standup comedian who was at the center of Boston's comedy scene for years and whose political satire took a serious turn in the 1990s when he became...

Paul Oliver, blues music scholar, dies at 90

June 2, 2018 at 10:05 p.m.

Paul Oliver, a British academic who wrote some of the first scholarly studies of blues music in the 1950s and 1960s, which helped spur a worldwide renewal of interest in...

Civil rights activist Julian Bond dies; Obama calls him a ‘hero’

June 24, 2019 at 11:16 p.m.

While still in his 20s, Julian Bond was already one of the most charismatic and best-known figures of the civil rights movement. Tall, strikingly handsome and a gifted orator, he...

Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who was three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients and the people who cared for them, died Dec. 11 while on assignment.

Pulitzer-prize winning Washington Post photographer dies of heart attack in Liberia

June 22, 2019 at 2:20 p.m.

Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of...

Larry L. King, 1929-2012

December 25, 2018 at 12:21 p.m.

Before he became known the world over as a playwright, Larry L. King was a reporter, a Capitol Hill aide, a raconteur, a brawler and a full-time Texan. He helped...

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