IN BRIEF

WALLACE Stegner, the the writer who celebrated the spirit of the American West and won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Angle of Repose is dead at 84. Stegner was seriously injured last month in a traffic accident in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he had gone to give a speech. He had been in hospital since the accident. He also wrote The Spectator Bird and The Big Rock Candy Mountain.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL Janet Reno got lots of looks when she walked into the Justice Department cafeteria with, yes, Don Johnson. The actor said he was at the department ''having a pleasant chat with a former fellow Miamian'' and that he was introduced to Ms Reno by a mutual friend. But Ms Reno, who was a Florida state attorney for 15 years, said she did not get to see much of Johnson's old TV show Miami Vice.

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