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24/12/2004
Writer Anthony Sampson dies
British journalist, author and biographer Anthony Samson has died aged 78.
Best known for his writings on global power, his books included The Arms Bazaar, Seven Sisters: Great Oil Companies and the World They Made and The Money Lenders. One of his most famous books, Who Runs This Place?, examined power in Britain and was published in the 1960s to much acclaim.
Sampson wrote for The Observer and later The London Independent but famously wrote Nelson Mandela's authorised biography. The two men had become friends while Sampson was editing the seminal South African magazine Black Drum in the 1950s before Mandela's imprisonment.
Sampson died of a heart attack and is survived by his wife, son and daughter.
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