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Jeffrey Zaslow, best-selling author, dies

This undated picture provided by Penguin shows author

Photo credit: AP | This undated picture provided by Penguin shows author Jeffrey Zaslow.

DETROIT -- Jeffrey Zaslow, author of bestsellers such as "The Last Lecture," about a professor dying of pancreatic cancer, and a recent book on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' recovery from a gunshot wound, was killed Friday in a car accident in northern Michigan.

Zaslow, 53, a husband and father of three daughters, was killed about 9 a.m. near Elmira, according to the Antrim County Sheriff's Department....

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