Are Isabel Allende and John McGahern both writers?
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Isabel Allende Isabel Allende (] ; born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as "The House of the Spirits" ("La casa de los espíritus", 1982) and "City of the Beasts" ("La ciudad de las bestias", 2002), which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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John McGahern John McGahern (12 November 1934 – 30 March 2006) is regarded as one of the most important Irish writers of the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Tom McKeown (poet) Thomas Shanks McKeown (born 29 September 1937) is an American poet. He published his first poetry chapbooks in the late 1960s and continued to develop his reputation as a poet of surrealist sensibilities throughout the 1970s, publishing in major magazines such as "The New Yorker".
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María Luisa Elío María Luisa Elío Bernal (17 August 1926 – 17 July 2009) was a Spanish writer and actress exiled in Mexico. She was an inspiration for Gabriel García Márquez. She wrote and acted in an autobiographical film, "El balcón vacío" (The Empty Balcony), which was one of the first films to depict the life of Spanish exiles during the Spanish Civil War.
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Gareth Alban Davies Gareth Alban Davies (30 July 1926 – 9 February 2009), was a Welsh poet, educator and Hispanist who was Cowdray Professor of Spanish at the University of Leeds. Davies translated many Spanish texts into English and Welsh, and was a noted expert on the works of Fernando Arrabal and Federico García Lorca.
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Andrew Foster Altschul Andrew Foster Altschul is an American fiction writer. He is the author of the novels "Deus Ex Machina", which Michael Schaub, in his NPR review, called "brilliant... one of the best novels about American culture in years," and "Lady Lazarus", and his short fiction and essays have been published in "Esquire", "McSweeney's", "Ploughshares", "Fence", and "One Story". His short story "Embarazada" was selected for "Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014" and his short story "A New Kind of Gravity" was anthologized in both "Best New American Voices 2006" and the "O.Henry Prize Stories 2007".
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J. T. McIntosh James Murdoch MacGregor, (14 February 1925 – 2008) was a Scottish journalist and author best known for writing science fiction under the pen name J.T. McIntosh.
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John Ardagh John Ardagh (28 May 1928, Nyasaland – 26 January 2008) was a British journalist, writer and broadcaster. He was educated at Sherborne School and Worcester College, Oxford, where he took an honors degree in classics and philosophy. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked as a staff writer and correspondent for "The Times" and "The Observer". His book "The New French Revolution", first published in 1968, has been updated many times, most recently as "France in the New Century: Portrait of a Changing Society" (1999). He also wrote anatomies of contemporary Ireland and Germany and co-authored and edited several travel guides. His father Osmond Ardagh played first-class cricket for Oxford University and was a colonial administrator. His son is the author and speaker Arjuna Ardagh.
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Álvaro Cunqueiro Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora (Mondoñedo, December 22, 1911 – Vigo, February 28, 1981) was a Galician novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish, including "Merlín e familia" ("Merlin and family"). He was a cofounder of the Galician Writers Association. In 1991, Galician Literature Day was dedicated to him.
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John McManus (author) John McManus is an American novelist and short story writer. He is the author of a novel, "Bitter Milk," and the short story collections "Born on a Train" and "Stop Breakin Down." In recognition of "Stop Breakin Down," McManus became the youngest ever recipient of the Whiting Award.
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Mary Allen Mary Allen (born 22 August 1951) is a British writer, broadcaster, arts administrator and management consultant best known for her controversial and turbulent period as Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House.
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Laura Mendez Laura Méndez de Cuenca (18 August 1853 – 1 November 1928), was a Mexican writer and poet.
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Isabel Quigly Isabel Madeleine Quigly (born 17 September 1926) is a writer, translator and film critic. She was born in Spain and educated at Godolphin School, Salisbury and Newnham College, Cambridge. In her early career, she worked for Penguin Books and Red Cross Geneva. Between 1956 and 1966, she was film critic of The Spectator. She served as literary editor of The Tablet from 1985 to 1997. She has also contributed to numerous journals and newspapers, and served on the jury of various literary prizes including the Booker Prize jury in 1986.
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The Porcelain Fat Lady The Porcelain Fat Lady (Spanish: La gorda de porcelana ) is a children's story by the Chilean writer Isabel Allende.
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Adrian J. McDowall Adrian John McDowall is a BAFTA Award-Winning Filmmaker
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Forest of the Pygmies Forest of the Pygmies, a 2004 novel by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, is a threequel to "City of the Beasts" and "Kingdom of the Golden Dragon".
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Eileen McGann (author) Eileen McGann, wife (1980-) of influential political commentator and consultant Dick Morris, is an American lawyer, columnist, author, and frequently-credited co-writer in Morris' literary output.
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Nancy Mercado Nancy Mercado Ph.D. (Born December 1959) is an American writer, editor, educator and activist; her work focuses on issues of injustice, the environment, and the Puerto Rican and Latino experience in the United States. She forms part of the Nuyorican Movement, a literary genre that came out of the Beat Movement.
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Antonio Rodríguez Salvador Antonio Rodríguez Salvador (born December 22, 1960), is a poet, fiction writer, dramatist and essayist.
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Ian McHugh Ian McHugh is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.
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William Kirkpatrick Magee William Kirkpatrick Magee (16 January 1868 – 9 May 1961), was an Irish author, editor, and librarian, who as an essayist and poet adopted the pen-name of John Eglinton. He became head librarian of the National Library of Ireland, after opposing the "cultural nationalism" of his time. From 1904 to 1905 he edited the literary journal "Dana" and was the biographer of George William Russell ("Æ").
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Graham Allen (writer, academic) Graham Allen is a writer and academic from Cork city, Ireland. He is the author of two collections of poetry, "The Madhouse System" (2016) and "The One That Got Away" (2014). He is a former recipient of the Listowel Single Poem Prize, awarded each year at Listowel Writers' Week. As a literary critic, he has published numerous books, including "Harold Bloom: Towards a Poetics of Conflict" (1994), "Intertextuality" (2000), and "Roland Barthes" (2003).