Engleberg, whose “Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics” was published by Harper Collins last spring passed away in her home in San Francisco, according to The Associated Press.

Her book grew out of a need to releive stress and deal with the unknowns of her illness.  Throughout it all her humor remained intact, even upon finding out the cancer had returned and was spreading.

“You know, my first thought when I heard was, ‘I hope it doesn’t hurt my book sales,’” she quipped. Of her illness, Engelberg once wrote, “Have I really become a shallower person since cancer? Some of my friends beg to differ and state unequivocally that I was already shallow before cancer.”

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The Washington Post reports that Belson, Emmy Winning comedy writer for such television classics as, “The Tracey Ullman Show,” “The Odd Couple,” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show” passed away at home in Los Angeles on October 10th of cancer.

Writing Partner Garry Marshall recalled Belson’s unique style,

“In one of our first meetings, I said to him, ‘Write it like you would a play.’ He said, ‘I never saw a play.’ He wasn’t from Harvard. He was from El Centro.”

Belson is survived by two siblings, his wife, three children and two granchildren.

German historian and publisher Joachim Fest, author of a landmark biography of Adolf Hitler, has died aged 79, German media reported on Tuesday.

Fest, who was seen as one of Germany’s leading authorities on National Socialism (Nazism), died at his home in Kronberg near Frankfurt on Monday, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the paper he co-published between 1973 and 1993.  The FAZ did not give the cause of his death.

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