South African Writer Nadine Gordimer Dies at 90

South African writer and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer has died in her Johannesburg home at the age of 90. Gordimer was an anti-apartheid activist whose writings helped to expose South Africa's government of white-minority rule to a global readership. Her family says Gordimer died peacefully in her sleep at her home in Johannesburg, surrounded by her son and daughter. They did not disclose the cause of her death. Gordimer, a white South African born to Jewish immigrants, began...

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