Our Daily Dead

LA Times
Francoise Sagan, the French writer who made international headlines as a teenager with her precocious first novel, “Bonjour Tristesse,” died Friday. She was 69. Sagan died of heart and lung failure at a hospital near her home in Normandy.
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Vincent and Me

LA Times
WASHINGTON  Mark Fineman, a Los Angeles Times correspondent for the last 17 years, died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack in Baghdad while doing what he loved best  chasing the big story and living on the edge. Fineman, 51, collapsed at a checkpoint while waiting for an interview with a member of the Iraqi Governing Council. He was rushed to a U.S. military hospital nearby but could not be revived.