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Are there any other notable living authors who have had their lives in danger because of something they wrote?

>> No.6445130

In every photo of him, Salmon looks like he has some secrets...
Creeps me the heck out.

>> No.6445135

>>6445120
Pynchon.

He fucking jumped out of a window when they found him in hiding in Mexico.

>> No.6445140

>>6445120
wish the fatwa had led to something productive. Rushdie is a shit writer and Khomeini had way more style than this hack.

>> No.6445143

>>6445135
No he didn't. Shut up.

>> No.6445172

>>6445135
>>6445143
He did, or at least this is a widely-spread story about him, but it was just to avoid being photographed by the press.

>>6445120
Bill Gray

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>>6445120
Oh! You said living. Nm.

>> No.6445933

Martin Luther

>> No.6445934

>>6445140
I agree that rushdie is a condescending shit, but I'm going to need more that just one part of a name to find the other author you are on about

>> No.6445942

>>6445934
the Ayatollah Khomeni, the guy who declared a fatwa on Rushdie

>> No.6445990

>>6445942
That fuckin sandnigger still alive over there or is it a different chief dune coon? I can't keep up will all the silly names the jews give them.

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>>6445990
*Tsk tsk tsk tsk* Where to start...

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>> No.6448419

Donald Goines but he has died

>> No.6448423

>>6448036
Danger to himself maybe.

>> No.6448428

>>6448036
>>6445933
>Living

>> No.6448695

Kenzaburo Oe

nationalists, yakuza and I'm sure some younger extreme rightists of various sorts over the years.