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- Sep. 19, 1994: Died:James Clavell
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Sep. 19, 1994 So Young to Kill, So Young to Die
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 27
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- <p> DIED. JAMES CLAVELL, 69, best-selling author of Tai-Pan, Shogun,
- Noble House and other lushly detailed, very long historical
- adventure epics set in Asia; of complications from cancer; in
- Vevey, Switzerland. Born in Australia to a British military
- family, Clavell developed a lifelong affinity for the Far East
- under less than auspicious circumstances: as a Royal Artillery
- captain, he was captured by the Japanese during World War II
- and interned in the notorious Changi prison in Singapore. In
- the 1950s and '60s, he became a Hollywood scriptwriter; his
- eclectic credits included The Fly, The Great Escape and To Sir,
- With Love. Clavell turned to writing novels in 1960 during a
- screenwriters' strike. The result, King Rat, based on his experiences
- at Changi, was the first of his hugely successful Asian saga
- novels.
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