The first non-European head of the Roman Catholic Church in more than a millennium has died at age 88.

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Salman Rushdie delivers a Pen Pals Lecture in Hopkins about his memoir and his nine years living with death threats and a fatwa issued upon the publication of his novel, 'The Satanic Verses.' He lived under the pseudonym Joseph Anton.

Salman Rushdie's memoir of his life in hiding as Joseph Anton

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