Were Mervyn Peake and Philip K. Dick both writers?
Mervyn Peake Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the "Gormenghast" books. The three works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but his surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.
Basil Boothroyd John Basil Boothroyd (4 March 1910 – 27 February 1988) was an English humorous writer, best known for his long association with "Punch". As a young man he worked for a bank, but began contributing articles to "Punch", and became its assistant editor, a post in which he served for eighteen years. His career as a writer for "Punch" spanned the editorships of E. V. Knox to Alan Coren. Boothroyd’s chief literary work outside the comic essay was an official biography of Prince Philip undertaken at the request of its subject. Boothroyd also wrote for television and radio, and was a frequent broadcaster.