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He was best known for westerns, but his acting career, which lasted well into the 21st century, was not relegated to the frontier. He was seen in “The Last Picture Show” and, most recently, in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood.” https://t.co/Eb7XGNJvMC

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Patrick French was an acclaimed historian of India and Tibet, but he was best known for an unsparing biography of the novelist V.S. Naipaul, which one reviewer described as “a portrait of the artist as a monster.” https://t.co/gih4Z9nMTy

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One critic called Hans Neuenfels's production of “La Forza del Destino” by Verdi at the Deutsche Oper in 1982 a “coldblooded murder,” an “atrocity” that represented little more than “a puppy rubbing its master’s nose in his own excrement.” https://t.co/oTBt2j5kSR

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Cormac McCarthy, the author whose raggedly ornate early novels about misfits and grotesques gave way to the lush taciturnity of “All the Pretty Horses” and the apocalyptic minimalism of “The Road,” has died at 89. https://t.co/jx5yfsHPQk

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Donald Spoto, a prolific biographer best known for his books on Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and other high-profile entertainment figures, some of which made news with startling claims, has died at 81. https://t.co/bMVMjhbHDP

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Khan's story is part of our Overlooked series, recognizing remarkable women, people of color and others who did not receive a New York Times obit when they died.

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Rebecca Godfrey, who mapped the complex landscape of teenage transgression in her novel “The Torn Skirt” and her nonfiction book “Under the Bridge,” in which she told the story of a young girl who was beaten and murdered, has died at 54. https://t.co/ne9nNgP0td

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Patricia MacLachlan’s best-selling “Sarah, Plain and Tall” earned a Newbery Medal — the premier honor for children’s literature — and was adapted into a TV movie with Glenn Close. https://nyti.ms/3jqZ7zw

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Lucy Simon and her sister Carly Simon were a folk duo in the 1960s. Years later, she wrote the Tony-nominated music for “The Secret Garden.” https://t.co/4VF3zR7RxO

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David McCullough’s research — on Adams, Truman and so much more — was deep, his writing was lively, and his narrator’s voice in documentary films was familiar to millions. https://t.co/adEdOkgZBc

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