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Ptah

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Fri Apr 10, 2015, 06:00 PM Apr 2015

Acclaimed Western writer Ivan Doig dies at 75 [View all]

Friends, fellow writers and book lovers remembered award-winning author Ivan Doig
as a gracious and kind person who loved both literature and diligent historical research.

Doig, referred to as "the dean of Western writers," died early Thursday morning,
according to an email from his publisher.

The 75-year-old White Sulphur Springs native died at his home in Seattle. The
cause was multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells, from which he'd
suffered for eight years, Riverhead Books wrote in a statement.

Lois Welch, a longtime family friend, described Doig as "alive to language," a trait
that drew him toward fiction from his original career as a journalist.

http://missoulian.com/news/local/acclaimed-western-writer-ivan-doig-dies-at/article_5bcdbd66-5e2a-5f4b-867b-18a6885c850c.html

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Oh, how sad! scarletwoman Apr 2015 #1
aw dang uppityperson Apr 2015 #2
So sad to hear. hippywife Apr 2015 #3
Saddened to hear this. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #4
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