Which American writer, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings or William H. Gass, was born first?
William H. Gass William Howard Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, "A Temple of Texts" (2006), won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His 1995 novel "The Tunnel" received the American Book Award. His 2013 novel "Middle C" won the 2015 William Dean Howells Medal.
Donald R. McLennan Donald Roderick McLennan (October 27, 1873 – October 14, 1944) was born in Duluth, Minnesota, son of William Lillingston McLennan and Julia MacLeod. He was the co-founder of the insurance brokerage firm Burroughs, Marsh & McLennan in 1905, which was renamed Marsh & McLennan in 1906 after the retirement of Mr. D. W. Burroughs. McLennan served as the Chairman of the Board from 1935 until his death in 1944 in Lake Forest, Illinois. At the time of his death, the firm had offices in Chicago, San Francisco, New York City, and twenty other cities. In 2007, Marsh & McLennan Companies had over 57,000 employees and annual revenues of $12.07 billion.