Beginning to See the Light is an essay collection by critic Ellen Willis.
 Originally published by Knopf in 1981 as "Beginning to See the Light: Pieces of a Decade", it was subsequently republished in two more editions (Wesleyan University Press in 1992 and University of Minnesota Press in 2012) as "Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll".
 The book collects essays Willis wrote between 1967 and 1980.
 In "Tablet", Emily Gould particularly praises the essay "Next Year in Jerusalem" for displaying Willis's "ability, rare among even the most brilliant writers, to consider frightening ideas thoroughly and to hold contradictory ideas in her mind simultaneously, without prejudice or fear."
Maps and Legends is a collection of sixteen essays by American author Michael Chabon, his first book-length foray into nonfiction.
 Several of these essays are defenses of the author's work in genre literature (such as science fiction, fantasy, and comics), while others are more autobiographical, explaining how the author came to write several of his most popular works.
Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and commentator.
 She is the author of "The New York Times" best-selling essay collection "Bad Feminist" (2014), as well as the short story collection "Ayiti" (2011), the novel "An Untamed State" (2014), the short story collection "Difficult Women" (2017), and the memoir "Hunger" (2017).
The World's Last Night and Other Essays is a collection of essays by C. S. Lewis published in the United States in 1960.
 The title essay is about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
 The volume also contains a follow-up to his "The Screwtape Letters" in the form of "Screwtape Proposes a Toast."
 The second, fourth and fifth pieces were published in the U.K. in a volume called "Screwtape Proposes a Toast and other pieces" (1965); the first, sixth and seventh were published in the U.K. in "Fern-seed and Elephants and other essays on Christianity" (1975).
 All the pieces were later collected in the comprehensive "Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces" (2000).
The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is an online database of all published names of Australian vascular plants.
 It covers all names, whether current names, synonyms or invalid names.
 It includes bibliographic and typification details, information from the Australian Plant Census including distribution by state, links to other resources such as specimen collection maps and plant photographs, and the facility for notes and comments on other aspects.
Constance Edith Vaughan (September 1904 – ca. 1970), better known by her pseudonym Olive Moore, was a modernist English writer best known for three well-esteemed novels: "Celestial Seraglio" (1929), "Spleen" (1930), and "Fugue" (1932), and for the acerbic essay collection "The Apple Is Bitten Again" (1934).
 She also produced an essay on D.H. Lawrence, entitled "Further Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine", which was privately printed in 1933 and included in her essay collection.
 Her "Collected Writings" was published in 1992.
Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants: Essays on Literature, Film, and History is a 1996 essay collection by L. Sprague de Camp, published in hardcover by Borgo Press as no. 26 in the series "I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy & Criticism of Literature".
 The title essay "Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants" (retitled in this collection) was originally published in the magazine "Analog Science Fiction and Fact", in the issue for mid-December 1987.
"Going Out for a Walk", is an essay by Max Beerbohm, written in 1918 and was published in 1920 in the essay collection "And Even Now".
 The essay fights the notion that taking a walk is a matter of the brain needing release and more so conflicted when there is a talkative companion.
Anil Joshi (Gujarati: અનિલ જોશી ) is a Gujarati language poet and essayist from Gujarat, India.
 He won Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati in 1990 for his essay collection "Statue" (1988).
 His significant works includes "Kadach" (1970; Collection of poems), "Barafna Pankhi" (1981; Collection of poems) and "Pavan Ni Vyaspithe" (1988; Collection of Essay).
born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Question: The author of the essay collection Maps and Legends was born in what year?
Answer: 1963