Who was born first, Gordon Lish or Rick Bass?
Gordon Lish
Rick Bass
Rick Bass (born March 7, 1958) is an American writer and an environmental activist.
Gordon Lish
Gordon Lish (born February 11, 1934 in Hewlett, New York) is an American writer.
 As a literary editor, he championed many American authors, particularly Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Rick Bass, and Richard Ford.
 He is the father of the novelist Atticus Lish.
Douglas Glover (writer)
Douglas Glover BA, M.Litt., MFA (born 14 November 1948 in Simcoe, Ontario.
 Canada) is a Canadian writer.
 He was raised on his family's tobacco farm just outside Waterford, Ontario.
 He has published five short story collections, four novels (including "Elle" which won the 2003 Governor-General's Award for Fiction), two books of essays, "Notes Home from a Prodigal Son" and "Attack of the Copula Spiders", and "The Enamoured Knight", a book-length meditation on "Don Quixote" and novel form.
 His 1993 novel, "The Life and Times of Captain N.", was edited by Gordon Lish and released by Alfred A. Knopf.
 His most recent book is a story collection, "Savage Love" (Goose Lane Editions, 2013). Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters
The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters (MIAL) is a privately funded foundation created to recognize annually the greatest accomplishments in art, music, literature, and photography among Mississippians.
 The idea was conceived by, among others, former Mississippi Governor William Winter, Dr. Cora Norman, Dr. Aubrey Lucas, and Dr. Noel Polk in 1978, and the first awards were given out in 1980.
 Nominations for these awards may be made only by registered members of the Institute.
 The winners are chosen by a jury of prominent academics in each of the seven fields: Fiction, Non-fiction, Visual Art, Concert Musical Composition, Popular Musical Composition, Photography, and Poetry.
 The ceremony is held in a different Mississippi city each year.
 Past winners have included Walker Percy, Ellen Douglas, Ellen Gilchrist, Richard Ford, Larry Brown, Rick Bass, Lewis Nordan, Beverly Lowry, Donna Tartt, Clifton Taulbert, Barry Hannah, Willie Morris, Leontyne Price, Cynthia Shearer, Stephen Ambrose, Steve Yarbrough, Tom Franklin, Brad Watson, Shelby Foote, Natasha Trethewey, Birney Imes, Maude Schyler Clay, William Grant Still, Morgan Freeman, Christopher Maurer, Wyatt Waters, Logan Skelton, and many others.
 Lifetime achievement awards have been presented to artists such as Gulf Coast painter and potter Walter Anderson, Jackson writer Eudora Welty, and the distinguished film actor from the Delta, Morgan Freeman. Atticus Lish
Atticus Lish (born 1972, age 43) is an American novelist.
 His debut, "Preparation for the Next Life" (New York: Tyrant, 2014), caught its independent publisher “off guard” by becoming a surprise success, winning a number of awards including the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
 Lish lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn with his wife.
 He is the son of influential literary editor Gordon Lish. Mao II
Mao II, published in 1991, is Don DeLillo's tenth novel.
 It was the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1992.
 The title is derived from a series of Andy Warhol silkscreen prints depicting Mao Zedong.
 The book was dedicated to DeLillo's editor, Gordon Lish. Greg Mulcahy
Greg Mulcahy is an American novelist and short story writer.
 He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1958.
 His collection,"Out of Work," was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1993.
 His novel, "Constellation," was published by Avisson Press in 1996.
 His short fiction appeared frequently in Gordon Lish's "The Quarterly".
 His work has also appeared in Diane Williams's NOON Coop Renner's "elimae," Kathryn Rantala's publications,"The New York Tyrant", "Caliban", "The Gettysburg Review", "Juked", "Alice Blue Review", "Sidebrow", "five_trope", "Word Riot," and other journals. Raymond Carver bibliography
The bibliography of Raymond Carver consists of 72 short stories, 306 poems, a novel fragment, a one-act play, a screenplay co-written with Tess Gallagher, and 32 pieces of non-fiction (essays, a meditation, introductions, and book reviews).
 In 2009 the 17 stories collected in "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" were published in their manuscript form, prior to Gordon Lish's extensive editing, under the title "Beginners". Dear Mr. Capote
Dear Mr. Capote is a 1983 novel by Gordon Lish.
 His first novel, it takes the form of a letter to Truman Capote from a serial killer, "Yours Truly", who wishes Capote to write his biography and share the proceeds. The Quarterly
The Quarterly was an avant-garde literary magazine founded and edited by Gordon Lish in 1987.
 "The Quarterly" showcased the work of contemporary authors.