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Anne Kingston, book author, magazine writer and former columnist at the National Post who skewered modern culture, dissected human relationships and wrote passionately about the gender divide, has died.

Born and raised in Toronto, she was diagnosed in December with an aggressive cancer. She died on Wednesday in a Toronto hospital.

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She was 62.

Kingston had started teaching a course at the University of Toronto on the #MeToo movement and the media in September and was continuing her long tenure as a senior writer at Maclean’s magazine.

“It was all so sudden. She was so happy about teaching and her writing and then this,” said David Kingston, one of her two brothers. “The diagnosis was grim.”

Kingston was a columnist at the National Post from 1998 to 2005, known for detailed dissections of cultural phenomena and social rituals.

She became a senior writer at Maclean’s magazine in 2006 where she was a regular contributor until taking a sudden leave of absence. Even after her diagnosis she continued to file stories and work with editors and writers until just three weeks before she died.