William Seward Burroughs II ( ; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and artist.
 Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature.
 Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays.
 Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences.
 He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films.
 He was also briefly known by the pen name William Lee.
 Burroughs created and exhibited thousands of paintings and other visual art works, including his celebrated 'Gunshot Paintings'.
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs is a book by Daniel Odier built around an extensive series of interviews with Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs conducted in the late 1960s.
 Originally published in France in 1969, it was later reissued in several different English-language editions.
 Odier and Burroughs share authorship of the book, but it is common to see Burroughs given sole front cover author credit.
For Love Alone is a 1986 Australian film directed by Stephen Wallace and starring Helen Buday, Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill.
 The screenplay was written by Wallace, based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Christina Stead.
 The film marked the screen debut of Naomi Watts.
 The film was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.
Letty Fox: Her Luck is Australian-born author Christina Stead’s sixth novel.
 It is a tribute to the drama of the urban environment and its role in socializing its occupants.
 Published in 1946, Stead wrote the lengthy "Letty Fox" after living in New York City for seven years.
 The cosmopolitan setting serves well as the theater in which Stead develops her characters through their adventures with numerous careers, love affairs, familial obligations, and sensitivities to reputation.
 To this end, "Letty Fox" has been described as “a modern picaresque novel and psychological novel at the same time.”
William James Blake (1894–1968) was a broker, novelist and Marxist political economist.
 His birth name was Wilhelm Blech.
 His first marriage ended in divorce, and he then married Australian novelist Christina Stead, with whom he had been living since the late 1920s.
 Blake's father was physician, surgeon, and medical educator Gustavus M. Blech, M.D.
The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979.
 They are among the richest literary awards in Australia.
 Notable prizes include the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction.
I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist is a novel by Christina Stead (1902 - 1983).
 It was published posthumously by Virago Press in 1986, edited and with a preface by Ron Geering.
The Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead.
 It was not until a reissue edition in 1965, with an introduction by poet Randall Jarrell, that it found widespread critical acclaim and popularity.
 "Time" magazine included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".
 The novel has been championed by novelists Robert Stone, Jonathan Franzen and Angela Carter.
 Carter believed Stead's other novels "Cotters England"; "A Little Tea, A Little Chat"; and "For Love Alone" to be as good, if not better than "The Man Who Loved Children".
That Deadman Dance is the third novel by Western Australian author Kim Scott.
 It was first published in 2010 by Picador (Australia) and by Bloomsbury in the UK, US and Canada in 2012.
 It won the 2011 Regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the 2011 ALS Gold Medal, the 2011 Kate Challis RAKA Award, the 2011 Victorian Prize for Literature, the 2011 Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction and the 2012 NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize and Book of the Year.
Christina Stead (17 July 190231 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations.
 Christina Stead was a committed Marxist, although she was never a member of the Communist Party.
 She spent much of her life outside Australia.

Question: What occupation did Christina Stead and William S. Burroughs share?
Answer: writer