Stephen Michael "Steve" Erickson (born April 20, 1950) is an American novelist.
 The recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, he is the only Southern California novelist to win the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award previously bestowed on William Gaddis, William H. Gass and John Barth.
Rekha is an Indian film actress who primarily works in Hindi films. Hailed as one of India's finest actresses, she made her debut as a child artist in 1966 and went on to appear in lead roles in the early 1970s.
 Since her debut as a leading actress she has acted in over 180 films.
 Rekha has often portrayed strong female characters, while also acting in some arthouse films besides numerous mainstream cinema.
 She has won four Filmfare Awards; two Best Actress Awards—resulting from seven nominations, one Best Supporting Actress Award—resulting from six nominations, and a Lifetime Achievement Award.
 The first award came in 1981 for the Hrishikesh Mukherjee-directed "Khubsoorat" where she was cast in a comic role.
 Her portrayal of a classical courtesan in "Umrao Jaan" (1981) fetched her the National Film Award for Best Actress in 1982.
 Rekha received her second Filmfare award in 1989 for "Khoon Bhari Maang".
 She portrayed the role of a widow who sets out to take revenge on her lover.
 Her negative role in "Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi" was highly appreciated by the critics and earned her a Filmfare Award in the Best Supporting Actress category.
 In 2003, she was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
 In 2010, Rekha was awarded the Padma Shri, the 4th highest civilian honour in India.
 Other awards won by her include International Indian Film Academy Awards, Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards, Star Screen Awards, Zee Cine Awards, Stardust Awards and Bollywood Movie Awards.
Cynthia Shoshana Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
Jeetendra (born Ravi Kapoor on 7 April 1942) is an Indian actor, TV and film producer as chairman of the Balaji Telefilms, Balaji Motion Pictures and ALT Entertainment.
 Famous for his dancing, he was awarded a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 and the Screen Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.
Stephen R. Lankton, (born 29 May 1947) MSW, DAHB is the current editor of the "American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis" (2005–2017).
 He is a recipient of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis' "Lifetime Achievement Award" and “Irving Sector Award for Advancement of the Field of Hypnosis”.
 as well as the Milton H. Erickson Foundation “Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Psychotherapy.”
Yosef Carmon is an Israeli actor and theater director.
 Born in Poland in 1933, he arrived in Palestine in 1946.
 He studied acting in London, and participated in numerous Israeli films and plays; Carmon has been an actor at the Cameri Theater for over 50 years, participating in 40 plays, of them 17 by playwright Hanoch Levin, including the title role in "Job's Passion", for which he received the "David's Violin" award.
 Other awards he has received include The Cameri Prize, The Moshe HaLevi Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Rosenblum Lifetime Achievement Award.
 Carmon has also directed several plays at the theater, including some of Levin's work; his film appearances include "Alila", "Mr. Baum", "Aunt Clara" and "Tel Aviv - Berlin".
Ella Brennan (born 1925) is a restaurateur and part of a family of restaurateurs specializing in haute Louisiana Creole cuisine in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 In 2009 she received the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
 In 2002 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance.
Clarence Major is an American poet, painter, and novelist; winner of the "2015 Lifetime Achievement Award in the Fine Arts," presented by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
 He was also awarded the "The 26th Annual PEN Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award 2016" on December 3, 2016.
Born in 1943, he graduated with an Bachelor of Science from Stanford University in 1963 and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967.
 He completed a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute before taking up a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania.
 He was the 1982 recipient of the American Ornithologists' Union's William Brewster Memorial Award, the union's most prestigious award given annually for an exceptional body of work on birds of the Western Hemisphere.
 In 2003, he received the Pacific Seabird Group's Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on growth and development in seabirds.
 He was awarded the 2003 Margaret Morse Nice Medal by the Wilson Ornithological Society.
 He was the 2006 recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society’s Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement in ornithological research.
Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books.
 He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's.
 He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn.
 He served as the Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at State University of New York at Buffalo.
 In 1991, he joined colleagues Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Raymond Federman, Robert Bertholf, and Dennis Tedlock in founding the Poetics Program at Buffalo.
 Creeley lived in Waldoboro, Maine, Buffalo, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island, where he taught at Brown University.
 He was a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.

Question: Which author was the recipient of the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, Cynthia Ozick or Robert Creeley?
Answer: Robert Creeley