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Ricardo Castaneda, Psychiatrist With Many Talents, Dies at 64
He was a writer and caricaturist who planned to treat his patients even after he was admitted to the hospital, where he died of the novel coronavirus.
Mystery Man's Death Can't End the Mystery; Fighting Over Carlos Castaneda's Legacy
Once he began publishing his best-selling accounts of his purported adventures with a Mexican shaman 30 years ago, Carlos Castaneda's life and work played out in a wispy blur of sly illusion and artful deceit. Now, four months after he died and two months after the death was made public, a probate court in Los Angeles is sifting through competing claims on the estate of the author whose works helped define the 1960's and usher in the New Age movement.
Carlos Castaneda, Mystical and Mysterious Writer, Dies
Carlos Castaneda, whose best-selling explorations of mystical and pharmacological frontiers helped to define psychological landscape of 1960's, died on April 27; Castaneda's age is uncertain, but he was believed to be 72; sample of Castenda's works; photo (M)
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