Did Marguerite Duras have the same occupation as Penelope Lively?
Penelope Lively Dame Penelope Margaret Lively DBE FRSL (born 17 March 1933) is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. She has won both the Booker Prize ("Moon Tiger", 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books ("The Ghost of Thomas Kempe", 1973).
Marguerite Roberts Marguerite Roberts (21 September 1905 – 17 February 1989) was an American screenwriter, one of the highest paid in the 1930s. After she and her husband John Sanford refused to testify in 1951 before the House Un-American Activities Committee, she was blacklisted for nine years and unable to get work in Hollywood. She was hired again in 1962 by Columbia Pictures.