Elizabeth Searle is an American novelist, short story writer and playwright.
 She has a new novel forthcoming in 2016 and a NYC festival production of her rock opera in 2015.
 Her works have included the novel "A Four Sided Bed" and the short story collections "My Body to You" and "Celebrities in Disgrace".
 Her most recent novel "Girl Held in Home" was published in 2011 by New Rivers Press.
 She wrote the libretto for "Tonya and Nancy:The Opera" which was produced in 2006 and 2010 and 2014.
 She also wrote the libretto for the full length musical, "Tonya and Nancy: The Rock Opera" which is being produced in NYC as an official Full Production show at the New York Musical Festival (NYMF) in July, 2015.
 The show premiered in February 2008.
 A full production was presented in Boston in 2011.
 A new 'rock concert' production was performed in sold-out club dates in Hollywood in February 2014.
 Searle's theater works have drawn national media attention.
The Body Artist is a novella written in 2001 by Don DeLillo.
 It explores the grieving process of a young performance artist, Lauren Hartke, following the suicide of her significantly older husband.
 The novella is sometimes described as a ghost story due to the appearance of an enigmatic figure that Lauren discovers hiding in an upstairs room of the house following her husband's death.
Robert Rodi (born 1956 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American novelist, playwright, comic book writer, essayist, and performance artist.
Jack Matthews (22 July 1925 – 28 November 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright and former professor.
 He published 7 novels, 7 collections of short stories, a novella, and 8 volumes of essays.
 He was an avid book collector, and many of his book finds served as a basis for his essays and the historical topics he explored in his fiction.
 His 1972 novel The Charisma Campaigns was nominated by Walker Percy for the National Book Award.
 He has often made 19th century America and the Civil War period the setting for his fiction, starting with his 1981 novel Sassafras and most recently with the 2011 novel Gambler's Nephew (which tells the story of how an abolitionist accidentally kills an escaped slave) and a 2015 story collection Soldier Boys: Tales of the Civil War.
 His plays have been performed at multiple theaters around the country.
Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist.
 His 2001 novel "The Corrections", a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
 His novel "Freedom" (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of "Time" magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist".
Never Ever (original title: À jamais) is a 2016 French-Portuguese film directed by Benoît Jacquot and produced by Paulo Branco.
 It stars Mathieu Amalric, Jeanne Balibar and Julia Roy, who also wrote the screenplay for the film, loosely based on the novella "The Body Artist" by American author Don DeLillo.
 The film was screened out of competition at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and in the Masters section of the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
Robert Hellenga (August 5, 1941) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story author.
 His seven novels include "The Sixteen Pleasures", "The Fall of a Sparrow", "Blues Lessons", "Philosophy Made Simple", "The Italian Lover", "Snakewoman of Little Egypt", and "The Confessions of Frances Godwin".
 In addition to these works, he has written a novella along with a collection of short stories in "The Truth About Death and Other Stories".
 Hellenga has also published scholarly essays and literary or travel essays in various venues, including "The National Geographic Traveler", "The New York Times Sophisticated Traveler", and "The Gettysburg Review".
Shane Jones (born February 22, 1980) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.
 He has published three novels, two books of poetry, and one novella.
Tao Lin (; born July 2, 1983) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist.
 He has published three novels, two books of poetry, one short story collection, and one novella in print as well as an extensive assortment of online content.
 His third novel, "Taipei", was published by Vintage on June 4, 2013.
Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist.
 His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism.

Question: In which year was this American novelist, playwright and essayist who wrote the novella "The Body Artist" born?
Answer: 1936