Writers: Final Exits of 2012

Polish Nobel Laureate Dies
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2012/02/polish-nobel-laureate-dies.html

Award-Winning New York Times Reporter Dies in Syria
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2012/02/award-winning-new-york-times-reporter.html

Famous Children's Author Leaves Legacy of Wild Things
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2012/05/famous-childrens-author-leaves-legacy.html

Science Fiction Icon Ray Bradbury Dead at 91
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2012/06/science-fiction-icon-ray-bradbury-dead.html

Humorist, Screenwriter Nora Ephron Dies at 71
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2012/06/humorist-screenwriter-nora-ephron-dies.html

Novelist Gore Vidal Dies at 86
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2012/08/novelist-gore-vidal-dies-at-86.html

Dissident Vietnamese Poet Nguyen Chi Thien Dies at 73
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2012/10/dissident-vietnamese-poet-nguyen-chi.html

Nobel Prize Winning Immunologist Dies at 90

Venezuelan-born doctor Baruj Benacerraf, whose research on the human immune system won him a Nobel Prize for Medicine, has died.

Dr. Benacerraf was living in Boston, Massachusetts and had been suffering from pneumonia. He was 90 years old.

Dr. Benacerraf was born in Caracas and grew up in Paris, arriving in the United States in 1939 to study medicine.

His research into why some people are better able to fend off disease and infection than others brought him the 1980 Nobel Price for Medicine, which he shared with two fellow researchers.

Dr. Benacerraf also ran the Boston-based Dana-Farmer Cancer Institute.