Author Ira Levin, who was best known for writing Rosemary's Baby, The Boys From Brazil and The Stepford Wives, has died aged 78. The writer suffered a heart attack in his Manhattan apartment on Monday, his agent Phyllis Westberg confirmed. 
Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead," died Saturday, [10 NOV 2007] his literary executor said. He was 84. Mailer died of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital, said J. Michael Lennon, who is also the author's biographer. From his classic debut novel to such masterworks of literary journalism as "The Armies of the Night," the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner always got credit for insight, passion and originality.
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