Author alexander Solzhenitsyn dies
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died at age 89 of heart failure.
Nobel Prize-winning novelist and historian Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, whose books chronicling the horrors of the Soviet prison system helped define how the West viewed the Communist regime, died of heart failure Sunday at his home near Moscow, said his son, Stepan.