STEPHEN AMBROSE, 66
`He wrote for everyday people'
Associated Press
Published October 14, 2002
NEW ORLEANS -- Stephen Ambrose, a history professor catapulted to prominence by his best-selling books that made World War II veterans hometown heroes again, died Sunday of lung cancer. He was 66.
Family members were with Mr. Ambrose, a longtime smoker who was diagnosed in April, when he died at a hospital in Bay St. Louis, Miss., according to his son, Hugh.
At the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, which Mr. Ambrose founded, his portrait was placed near the entrance and a sign noted his death. Guests were invited to write messages to the Ambrose family on museum postcards.
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