Which author is a professor, Maxine Hong Kingston or Isabel Allende?
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.
Maxine Mesinger Maxine Mesinger, born Maxine Ethel David (December 19, 1925 - January 19, 2001) was a celebrity gossip columnist of the "Houston Chronicle" who was active between 1965 and 2000. Her works were published in the "Big City Beat," her social column. She had the nickname "Miss Moonlight". Clifford Pugh of the "Houston Chronicle" said that she "wrote about big names for half of the 20th century and became a celebrity in her own right". Lisa Gray of the "Houston Press" said that Mesinger "wrote in the swingin' lingo of '40s showbiz".