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  "id": 599479,
  "title": "Richard Lingeman, Cultural Historian and Biographer, Dies at 95",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/richard-lingeman-cultural-historian-and-biographer-dies-at-95",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-11T20:22:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NYT Arts",
    "slug": "nyt-arts",
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/books/richard-lingeman-dead.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "He spent decades as a magazine editor and wrote an acclaimed history of small-town America, as well as biographies of the novelists Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}