What kind of books does American author William Kennedy and French-Canadian author S. M. Stirling write?
William Kennedy (author) William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York, the son of William J. Kennedy and to Mary E. McDonald. Kennedy was raised a Catholic. Many of his novels feature the interactions of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family and make use of incidents of Albany's history and the supernatural. Kennedy's works include "The Ink Truck" (1969), "Legs" (1975), "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game" (1978), "Ironweed" (1983, winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; movie, 1987), and "Roscoe" (2002). In 2011, he published "Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes", which one reviewer called a book "written with such brio and encompassing humanity that it may well deserve to be called the best of the bunch".
David Allan Cates David Allan Cates is an American novelist and poet, and director of Missoula Medical Aid. He is the author of five novels, "Tom Connor's Gift" (2014), "Hunger in America" (1992), "X Out of Wonderland" (2006), a farce about the global economy modeled on Voltaire's "Candide", "Freeman Walker" (2008), a novel about a mulatto ex-slave journeying from a Southern Plantation, to a London prep school, to the Civil War battlefields and finally the American gold camps, and in 2012 "Ben Armstrong's Strange Trip Home". His work has appeared in a number of publications which include "The Sun", "Outside Magazine", "The Montanan", and "The New York Times Sophisticated Traveler".