Which author, John Grisham or Blaise Cendrars, was born earliest?
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John Grisham John Ray Grisham Jr. ( ; born February 8, 1955) is an American bestselling writer, attorney, politician, and activist best known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into 42 languages and published worldwide.
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Blaise Cendrars Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
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John Clive John Clive (6 January 1933 – 14 October 2012) was an English author and actor. He is best known for his international best selling historical and social fiction, such as "KG200" and "Borossa".
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Cyril Berry Cyril J J Berry (1918 – 4 November 2002), widely cited as CJJ Berry, is best known as the author of the popular book "First Steps in Winemaking", which has sold more than three million copies worldwide.
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Theodore Boone: The Abduction Theodore Boone: The Abduction, written by John Grisham, is the second book in the Theodore Boone series. It is written for 11- to 13-year-olds.
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John Grant (novelist) John Grant (born 1933) is a British doctor and writer, best known as the author of the Lovejoy series of novels using the pen name Jonathan Gash. He has also written under the name of Graham Gaunt.
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John Carne John Carne (1789–1844) was a British traveller and author.
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Nick Charles (author) Nick Charles (born 1944), is the first person to be honoured by the Queen for 'Services to people with alcohol problems'. He is the author of several books, including his autobiography "Through A Glass Brightly", published by Robson Books, and founder of the Chaucer Clinic, the UK's largest alcohol project until it closed in 2005. He is currently director of the Gainsborough Foundation, which provides treatment for alcoholism through GP surgeries across Cambridgeshire.
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Charles Palliser Charles Palliser (born December 11, 1947 in Holyoke, Massachusetts) is a best-selling novelist, American-born but British-based. His most well-known novel, "The Quincunx", has sold over a million copies internationally. He is the elder brother of the late author and freelance journalist Marcus Palliser.
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Aimé Césaire Aimé Fernand David Césaire (26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a Francophone and French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature". He wrote such works as "Une Tempête", a response to Shakespeare's play "The Tempest", and "Discours sur le colonialisme" ("Discourse on Colonialism"), an essay describing the strife between the colonizers and the colonized. His works have been translated into many languages.
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Eugène Vinaver Eugène Vinaver (born Russian: Евгений Максимович Винавер "Yevgeniĭ Maksimovich Vinaver", 18 June 1899 – 21 July 1979) was a literary scholar who is best known today for his edition of the works of Sir Thomas Malory.
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John Buchan John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir ( ; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
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W. B. Maxwell William Babington Maxwell (1866–1938) was a British novelist. Born on 4 June 1866, he was the third surviving child and second eldest son of novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
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C. J. Sansom Christopher John "C.J." Sansom is a Scottish-born writer of historical crime novels. He was born in 1952 in Edinburgh and was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor. He practised in Sussex as a lawyer for the disadvantaged, before leaving the legal profession to become a full-time writer. He currently lives in Sussex.
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John Symonds John Symonds (12 March 1914, Battersea, London – 21 October 2006) was an English novelist, biographer, playwright and writer of children's books.
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Felix Gras Félix Gras (Malemort-du-Comtat, May 3, 1844 – Avignon, March 4, 1901) was a Provençal poet and novelist.
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Gregory Blake Smith Gregory Blake Smith (born 1951), is an American novelist and short story writer. His novel, "The Divine Comedy of John Venner", was named a Notable Book of 1992 by "The New York Times Book Review" and his short story collection "The Law of Miracles" won the 2010 Juniper Prize for Fiction and the 2012 Minnesota Book Award.
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Nick Burbridge Nick Burbridge (born 1954) is a British novelist, poet, dramatist, journalist, short story and song writer. He suffers from chronic depression, and his writing often concerns itself with the dispossessed, those at the margins of society. In fRoots, Jerry Gilbert described him as "a second-generation Irishman with a high intellect and an angry disposition."
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John Malam John Malam is a British historian, archaeologist, and author of Children's non-fiction (informational) books.
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Jean Bedford Jean Bedford (born 4 February 1946) is an English-born Australian writer who is best known for her crime fiction, but who has also written novels and short stories, as well as nonfiction. She is also an editor and journalist, and has taught creative writing in several universities for over 20 years.
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Max Braithwaite John Victor Maxwell Braithwaite (7 December 1911 – 19 March 1995) was a Canadian novelist and non-fiction author.
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John MacKay Shaw John MacKay Shaw (1897–1984) was a business executive, bibliophile, philanthropist, and writer. He was keenly interested in the tradition of poetry in the English language from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. He was especially attentive to its treatment of the theme of childhood.