Dictation: A Quartet (2008) is the seventh collection of stories by American Author Cynthia Ozick.
Cynthia Shoshana Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
Clarence Malcolm Lowry ( ; 28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel "Under the Volcano", which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.
The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971) is the second book and first collection of stories published by American author Cynthia Ozick.
 "The Pagan Rabbi" and "Envy; or, Yiddish in America", along with an interview with the author, were later collected as an audio book in 1989 read by Ron Rifkin and Mitchell Greenberg.
Confrontation is an American literary magazine founded in 1968 and based at Long Island University in Brookville, New York.
 It publishes fiction, essays and poetry twice each year.
 The journal, edited from its inception to 2010 by LIU Post English professor and poet Martin Tucker, helped launch the careers of Cynthia Ozick, Paul Theroux and Walter Abish.
Leo Bebb is a fictional clergyman who is featured in "The Book of Bebb", a tetralogy by Frederick Buechner.
 Cynthia Ozick calls him a "lustily flawed hero".
Ultramarine is the first novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry.
 Published in 1933, the novel follows a young man aboard a steamer in the early 20th century and his struggle to gain acceptance from his crew mates.
 Lowry tinkered with the novel until his death, adapting it also to make it fit with his second novel, "Under the Volcano" (1947).
Sarah Blacher Cohen (June 11, 1936 in Appleton, Wisconsin, – November 10, 2008 in Albany, New York) was a writer, scholar, and playwright, and a professor at SUNY Albany for 30 years.
 Her area of specialty was Jewish American fiction.
 Her published books include "Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature", "Saul Bellow's Enigmatic Laughter" (1974), and "Cynthia Ozick's Comic Art: From Levity to Liturgy".
 She edited "From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Jewish-American Stage and Screen" (Jewish Literature and Culture Series), "Making a Scene: The Contemporary Drama of Jewish-American Women", and "Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor".
 Her plays include "The Ladies Locker Room", and "Molly Picon's Return Engagement", a biographical play with music on the star of Yiddish theater.
 She collaborated with Joanne Koch, starting in 1989 on "Sophie, Totie, and Belle", a musical on performers Sophie Tucker, Totie Fields, and Belle Barth.
 'She and Joanne Koch also co-authored the plays "Danny Kaye: Supreme Court Jester", "Soul Sisters", "Henrietta Szold: Woman of Valor", an adaptation of Saul Bellow stories entitled "Saul Bellow's Stories Onstage: The Old System and a Silver Dish", and the multicultural musical "Soul Sisters".
 Cohen and Koch co-edited an anthology of ten plays "Shared Stages: Ten American Dramas of Blacks and Jews", including "Driving Miss Daisy", "Fires in the Mirror", and "Soul Sisters".
 She collaborated with Isaac Bashevis Singer on the off-Broadway play "Schlemiel the First".
 Cohen also gave talks and delivered papers, including "The Unkosher Comediennes: From Sophie Tucker to Joan Rivers."
 She was married to Gary Cohen.
 She died of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease on November 10, 2008 age 72.
The Shawl is a short story first published by Cynthia Ozick in 1980 in "The New Yorker".
 It tells the story of three characters: Rosa, Magda, and Stella on their march to and internment in a Nazi concentration camp.
 The Shawl is noted for its ability to instill in the reader the horror of the Holocaust in less than 2,000 words.
Under the Volcano is a novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) published in 1947.
 The novel tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac, on the Day of the Dead, 2 November 1938.
 The book takes its name from the two volcanoes that overshadow Quauhnahuac and the characters, Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl.
 "Under the Volcano" was Lowry's second and last complete novel.

Question: Who was born first: Cynthia Ozick or Malcolm Lowry?
Answer: Malcolm Lowry