Joshua Then and Now is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Mordecai Richler, first published in 1980 by McClelland and Stewart.
 Richler adapted it into the feature film "Joshua Then and Now", starring James Woods, Alan Arkin, and Gabrielle Lazure; directed by Ted Kotcheff who had previously directed Richler's "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz".
Martha Richler is an art historian and cartoonist.
 Working for the "Evening Standard", she was the first woman to produce a daily cartoon for the newspapers based in London, known collectively as "Fleet Street".
 Her father is the writer Mordecai Richler and her pen name, Marf, is his name for her.
 She produces work for web sites, including PoliticalBetting.com.
Mortimer Griffin and Shalinsky is a 1985 short film written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Mordecai Richler about an eccentric Jewish intellectual that accuses his teacher of hiding his Jewish identity.
 The film is based on Richler's 1978 short story, "Mortimer Griffin, Shalinsky and How they Settled the Jewish Question".
Mordecai Richler, CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer.
 His best known works are "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" (1959) and "Barney's Version" (1997).
 His 1989 novel "Solomon Gursky Was Here" was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
 He is also well known for the "Jacob Two-Two" children's fantasy series.
Noah Richler is a Canadian author, journalist, and broadcaster who was raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and London, England.
 He is the son of Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler.
Jacob Two-Two is a series of children's books written by Mordecai Richler: "Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang" (1975), "Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur" (1987) and "Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case" (1995) written by Mordecai Richler, and "Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas" (2009) written by Cary Fagan.
Son of a Smaller Hero is a novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler, first published in 1955 by André Deutsch.
 One of Richler's earliest works, it displays an earnest and gritty realism in comparison to his somewhat more satirical later novels.
 It is sometimes assigned reading for high school English classes in Canada.
The Delisle–Richler controversy is the name given by academics to a historical controversy in Canadian history surrounding allegations of antisemitism made by Mordecai Richler and Esther Delisle on several pre-World War II Quebec personalities, notably against the priest-historian Lionel Groulx.
Mary Catherine Gordon (born December 8, 1949) is an American writer and the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College.
 She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism.
St. Urbain's Horseman is the seventh novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler.
 It was first published in 1971 by McClelland & Stewart.
 It is one of Richler's most ambitious novels and won the prestigious Governor General's Award for 1971.

Question: Did both Mordecai Richler and Mary Gordon share the same profession? If so, what is that profession?
Answer: writer