Hiu Lui "Jason" Ng (吳曉雷; b. ca. 1975, d. August 5/6, 2008) was a New Yorker seized at his final green card interview, who died at age 34 while in custody of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after symptoms of liver cancer were ignored.
 Being held at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island, Ng was awaiting deportation for having overstayed an earlier visa.
 The events leading up to his death were condemned by the editorial page of "The New York Times" and other persons and organizations.
 An expose by "The Washington Post" highlighted Ng's case and identified tens of questionable deaths of ICE detainees between 2003 and 2008, the circumstances together which prompted the attempted introduction of federal legislation to ensure timely and effective medical care for immigration detainees.
William Butler Yeats ( ; 13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.
 A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served as an Irish Senator for two terms.
 Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.
The W. C. Handy Jazz All-Stars (also known as the W. C. Handy Festival All-Stars) is a group of jazz musicians who play annually at the W. C. Handy Music Festival in Florence, Alabama.
 During the last week of July each year, these musicians travel from all over the United States to gather in Florence and perform in various combinations.
 In addition to performing jazz, members of the W. C. Handy Jazz All-Stars serve as the resident faculty of the W. C. Handy Jazz Camp, also teaching the "A B Cs of Jazz, Blues and Beyond".
James Donald Cameron (May 14, 1833August 30, 1918) was an American politician and statesman from Pennsylvania who served as Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and in the United States Senate for nearly twenty years.
 In May, 1876 Cameron was part of a Cabinet realignment by President Grant, having been appointed after a brief tenure by Secretary Alphonso Taft, whom Grant appointed U.S. Attorney General.
 Former Secretary William W. Belknap had resigned from office, was impeached by the House for taking kickbacks from the Fort Sill tradership, put on trial in the Senate and acquitted.
 Secretary Cameron was one of two father-son combinations that served as Secretary of War.
 Secretary Simon Cameron was Cameron's father who served under President Abraham Lincoln.
 The other father-son combination was Secretary Alphonso Taft and his son Secretary William Howard Taft.
 During Cameron's tenure the U.S. Military was challenged by the Great Sioux War and by the threat of a second Southern secession after the controversial election of President Rutherford B. Hayes that ended Reconstruction.
 Cameron proved to be an energetic administrator and his appointment as Secretary of War launched his lengthy political career in the Senate.
Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction.
 Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the "Houston Post", was managing editor of "Location" magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1961–1962), co-founder of "Fiction" (with Mark Mirsky and the assistance of Max and Marianne Frisch), and a professor at various universities.
 He also was one of the original founders of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.
USS "Donald W. Wolf" (APD-129) was a "Crosley"-class high speed transport of the United States Navy, named for Sergeant Donald W. Wolf (1919–1942), USMC, who was posthoumously awarded the Navy Cross after being killed in action in the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Sam McCready (born 1936) is an actor, theatre director and playwright who was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
 One of 13 children of David and Sarah McCready, he lives in Northern Ireland and in the United States with his wife Joan Carslake whom he met in 1958 at Stranmillis College, Belfast, and married in 1962.
 They have two children, Julian (b. 1963), now deceased, and Richard (b. 1967).
 Richard is married to Julia Jackson and has a child named Margo (b. 2000).
 Sam was a founder member of the Lyric Players Theatre, Belfast, with whom he founded the Lyric Youth Theatre (1968), and also the Lyric Drama Studio (1978).
 He has performed and directed theatre productions in Europe and the US, and with Joan McCready is the founder and co-Artistic Director of Two-for-One Productions, a touring company which specializes in small-scale productions.
 He has conducted the Drama Workshop at the Yeats International Summer School, Sligo regularly since 1999.
Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline is a 1996 non-fiction book by former United States Court of Appeals judge Robert H. Bork.
 Bork's thesis in the book is that American and more generally Western culture is in a state of decline and that the cause of this decline is modern liberalism and the rise of the New Left.
 Specifically, he attacks modern liberalism for what he describes as its dual emphases on radical egalitarianism and radical individualism.
 The title of the book is a play on the last couplet of W. B. Yeats's poem "The Second Coming": "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
 Bork contends that the "rough beast of decadence … now sends us slouching towards our new home, not Bethlehem but Gomorrah."
Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts is a literary magazine from Houston, Texas.
 Founded in 1986 by Donald Barthelme and Phillip Lopate, "Gulf Coast" was envisioned as an intersection between the literary and visual arts communities.
 As a result, "Gulf Coast" has partnered with the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Menil Collection to showcase some of the most important literary and artistic talents in the United States.
 Faculty editors past and present include Mark Doty (1999–2005), Claudia Rankine, (2006) and Nick Flynn (2007–present).
 The magazine publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
The Sylvers were an American R&B/Soul family vocal group from Watts, Los Angeles, California.
 The Sylvers were one of the most popular acts during the 1970s, recording the hit singles "Fool's Paradise", "Boogie Fever" and "Hot Line".
 Prior to becoming "The Sylvers", the four eldest members (Olympia, Leon, Charmaine, and James) recorded as The Little Angels, appearing on shows such as "Make Room for Daddy" and "You Bet Your Life", and opening for such acts as Johnny Mathis and Ray Charles.
 During this time, two singles were released: "Santa Claus Parade" b/w "I'll Be a Little Angel" on Warwick Records (United States) and "Says You" b/w "Olympia" on Capitol Records.

Question: Which writer was from the United States, Donald Barthelme or W. B. Yeats?
Answer: Donald Barthelme