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Bisexual Author Nuala O'Faolain Dies by gomag.com May 12, 2008 |
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The internationally acclaimed Irish author, Nuala O'Faolain died this week of lung cancer. She was 68 years old. The staunch feminist and famed journaled gained international success with her 1996 memoir, "Are You Somebody?"
O'Faolain announced her illness a month ago in a radio interview that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer. She said in the interview, "Beauty means nothing to me anymore. I tried to read (Marcel) Proust again recently, but it has gone - the magic has gone. It amazed me how quickly my life turned black." O'Faolain, who also stated her disbelief in an afterlife will be cremated and given a Catholic mass.
O'Faolain's 1996 memoir gained her international fame and critical success. It was a collection of essays on her life as a single, middle-aged woman. In the same collection she also revealed a long-term affair with another prominent female journalist.
She published three more novels, including a second volume of memoirs entitled, "Almost There," in 2003 and her latest, "The Story of Chicago May," in 2005.
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