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DATE: TUESDAY, February 21, 1995                   TAG: 9502210086
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO  
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`GRADUATE' SCREENWRITER DIES AT 72

Calder Willingham, the novelist and screenwriter whose first book, ``End as a Man,'' made him a literary star at 24, died on Sunday at Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia, N.H. He was 72, and lived in New Hampton, N.H.

The cause was lung cancer, said his son Tom.

Willingham was a part of the widely heralded generation of young, salty writers of naturalistic fiction, including Norman Mailer and James Jones, who came to the fore of American literature in the postwar era. Although he published 10 novels between 1947 and 1975, he was better known in recent years for his work on screenplays for films including ``The Graduate'' (1967), ``Little Big Man'' (1970) and ``Rambling Rose'' (1991).

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