Peter Mayle, author of `A Year in Provence,` dead at 78
(LA Times Anaheim Ducks)

Peter Mayle, the British author whose midlife relocation to France inspired his bestselling `A Year in Provence` and other works set in his adopted country, has died in a hospital near his home in the south of France. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that Mayle died Thursday after a brief illness....