JULIA DARLING, NOTED BRITISH WRITER, DEAD AT 48
Julia Darling, a noted British poet, novelist and playwright,
has died following a long struggle with breast cancer. She
was 48. In 2003, she was awarded the Northern Rock Foundation
writer's award, the largest annual literary award in England.
First diagnosed with cancer 10 years ago, the disease
initially went into remission but returned five years later.
Darling's online diary, begun as an experiment in September
2002, chronicled the illness' progress and the ways it
changed her daily life, the Guardian reports. She began
seriously writing at age 31 and achieved acclaim a year later
with her first novel, "Crocodile Soup." Among her most beloved
works are "Sudden Collapses in Public Places," a collection
of poetry, the novel "Taxi Driver's Daughter" and the 1998
play "Eating the Elephant." Many of her works dealt with her
struggles with cancer.
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ANDREA DWORKIN, FEMINIST AUTHOR, DEAD AT 58
Controversial feminist author and campaigner against porno-
graphy, Andrea Dworkin, has died at her Washington home of
undisclosed causes at age 58. A self-described Jewish
lesbian, the Camden, N.J. native's sexual politics emerged in
her accounts of being violated as a child, raped as a teen-
ager, beaten as a wife and assaulted as a prostitute. Her
first book, "Women Hating" was published in 1974, followed
by numerous essays, novels and poetry collections, the New
York Sun reported. Dworkin made headlines in 1980 for
collaborating with legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon on behalf
of Linda Lovelace, star of "Deep Throat," whose civil rights
they claimed had been violated. Her most notorious work was
1987's "Intercourse," in which she claimed intercourse "is
the pure, sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for
women." She died Saturday at home and is survived by her
second husband, John Stoltenberg.
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