Between Iain Banks and Irwin Shaw, which writer has had a more diverse career?
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Iain Banks Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies ( ).
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Irwin Shaw Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for two of his novels: "The Young Lions" (1948), about the fate of three soldiers during World War II, made into a film of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and "Rich Man, Poor Man" (1970), about the fate of three siblings after World War II, that was made into a popular miniseries starring Nick Nolte. Though Shaw's work received widespread critical acclaim, the success of his commercial fiction ultimately diminished his literary reputation.
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Robert Shearman Robert Charles Shearman (sometimes credited as Rob Shearman; 10 February 1970, Horsham, Sussex) is an English television, radio, stage play and short story writer. He is known for his World Fantasy Award-winning short stories, as well as his work for "Doctor Who", and his association with Jarvis & Ayres Productions (Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres) which has resulted in six plays for BBC Radio 4, broadcast in the station's regular weekday "Afternoon Play" slot, and one classic serial.
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List of civilisations in the Culture series Various fictional societies are depicted in the Culture series of Iain M. Banks.
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Bernard McKenna (writer) Bernard McKenna (born 1944) is a Scottish writer/producer who has written, or co-written, many hours of British television comedy. He is most known for his work with Graham Chapman of "Monty Python" fame as well as his collaborations with Peter Cook and Douglas Adams. He had several acting roles in "Monty Python's Life of Brian".
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Donald Shaw (musician) Donald Shaw, born 1967 (age 49–50) , is a Scottish musician, composer, producer, and one of the founding members of the group Capercaillie.
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Jonathan Shaw (photographer) Jonathan Shaw is a British photographer and educator. He uses the camera as an instrument of both scientific record and aesthetic exploration, as did pioneering photographers such as Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton. In 2011 his work appeared in Maarten Vanvolsem's book "The Art of Strip Photography: Making Still Images with a Moving Camera."
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Darwin Shaw Darwin Shaw is a British stage, film, television actor, and director. Formerly a medical doctor, he retrained as an actor at LAMDA in 2004 after studying theatre in New York City.
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Craig Harrison (writer) Craig Harrison (born 1942 in Leeds, Yorkshire) is a retired lecturer, author, playwright, and scriptwriter probably best known for novel "The Quiet Earth". Harrison's output has ranged widely, from science fiction to junior fiction, to comedies parodying academia. All of his books were published first in his adopted home of New Zealand.
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Stuart Sutherland Norman Stuart Sutherland (26 March 1927 – 8 November 1998), always known professionally as Stuart Sutherland, was a British psychologist and writer.
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James Lee (writer) Jim Aitchison (born 1947), better known by his pen name James Lee, is a Singaporean author.
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Daran Little Daran Little (born 11 May 1966) is a BAFTA Award-winning and EMMY nominated British television writer. He is the only writer to pen more than a hundred episodes of both "Coronation Street" (from 2000 until 2010) and - "EastEnders" (from 2010 until present).
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Iain R. Smith Iain Robertson Smith (born July 1939) is emeritus reader in history at the University of Warwick. He is a specialist in the history of South Africa and the South African War in particular. Smith was a member of Council of The Historical Association from 1980 to 1995 and editor of the New Appreciations in History series.
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Iain Finlayson Iain Finlayson (born 1945) is a Scottish writer and journalist.
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Tony Banks (musician) Anthony George "Tony" Banks (born 27 March 1950) is an English musician, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist, primarily known for being the keyboardist and a founder member of the rock band Genesis. He is one of the only two members (the other being bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford) who have been with Genesis throughout the band's entire history. In 2010, Banks was inducted (as a member of Genesis) into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2015, he was named "Prog God" at the annual Progressive Music Awards. Banks is ranked No. 11 on MusicRadar's greatest keyboard players of all time.
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Guy N. Smith Guy Newman Smith (born 21 November, 1939, Hopwas, Staffordshire) is a prolific English writer best known for his pulp fiction-style horror fiction, though he has also written non-fiction, softcore pornography, and children's literature.
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Annie S. Swan Annie Shepherd Swan (8 July 1859 – 17 June 1943) was a Scottish journalist, novelist and story writer. She used her maiden name for most of her literary career, but also wrote as David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett Smith. She was a popular writer of romantic fiction for young women during the Victorian era and published more than 200 novels, serials, short stories and other fiction between 1878 and her death in 1943.
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Scott Shaw Scott Shaw (born September 23, 1958) is an American actor, author, film director, film producer, journalist, martial artist, musician, photographer, and professor.
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Lynne Reid Banks Lynne Reid Banks (born 31 July 1929) is a British author of books for children and adults.
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Mary Ure Eileen Mary Ure (18 February 1933 – 3 April 1975) was a Scottish stage and film actress. She was first married to playwright John Osborne, and later to the actor Robert Shaw.
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William Sansom William Norman Trevor Sansom FRSL (18 January 1912 – 20 April 1976) was a British novelist, travel and short story writer known for his highly descriptive prose style.
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The Culture The Culture is a fictional interstellar Socialist utopian society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, which features in a number of his space opera novels and works of short fiction, collectively called the Culture series.