'Fatal Vision' author Joe McGinniss dies at age 71

• Joe McGinniss, the adventurous and news-making author and reporter who skewered the marketing of Richard Nixon in "The Selling of the President 1968" and tracked his personal journey from sympathizer to scourge of convicted killer Jeffrey MacDonald in the blockbuster "Fatal Vision," died Monday at age 71.
• McGinniss, who announced last year that he had been diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer, died from complications related to his disease.
• McGinniss was a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1968.
• In 1979, he was a columnist for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.
• "Fatal Vision," published in 1983, became one of the most widely read and contested true crime books in history.

Few important books by him:

• In 1969 at the age of 26 he wrote, The Selling of the President 196. The book closely looked at campaigning and marketing of Presidential Candidate, Richard M Nixon
• In 1983 he authored Fatal Vision that focused on the murder case of former Green Beret doctor Jeffrey MacDonald 
• In 1980 he wrote Going to Extremes, that is on the reality of life in Alaska 
• In 2010, he wrote his last a book entitled The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin