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C. David Heymann; wrote lives of writers, celebrities

By Margalit Fox

 |  New York Times  

  May 13, 2012

C. David Heymann, a literary biographer turned best-selling celebrity biographer who came to wide attention in 1983 after his life of the heiress Barbara Hutton was withdrawn by its publisher because of factual errors, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 67.

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