Gajānan Digambar Mādgulkar (1 October 1919 – 14 December 1977) was a Marāthi poet, lyricist, writer and actor from India.
 He is popularly known in his home state of Maharashtra by just his initials as Ga Di Ma (गदिमा).
 He was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1951 and Padma Shri in 1969.
 He has written 157 screen play and over 2000 songs in his career.
 He was called Ādhunik Valmiki (the modern Valmiki) of current era due to his composition of Geet Rāmāyan (lit.
 Ramayana in Songs)as the most notable work.
Aimee Friedman (born 1979) is the author of several young adult novels published by Scholastic Inc.
, Point and S&S.
 Her novels South Beach (2004) (a "New York Times" bestseller), "French Kiss" (2005), and "Hollywood Hills" (2007)and also The Year My Sister Got Lucky (2008) focus on the scandalous adventures of on-again, off-again best friends Holly Jacobson and Alexa St. Laurent.
 She released "Sea Change" on June 1, 2009.
 "A Novel Idea" (2005) is a romantic comedy about a teenager who starts a book club in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
 Friedman wrote one of the four stories in the holiday collection "Mistletoe" (2006), which also features stories by Nina Malkin, Hailey Abbott, and Melissa de la Cruz.
 Friedman wrote a short story, "Three Fates" for the book 21 Proms.
 Recently, Friedman has also published, along with artist Christine Norrie, a graphic novel entitled "Breaking Up" which details the complicated dynamics of Junior year in an arts school in New York.
Lillian Maxine Serett (1924-1994), also known as Maxine Sanini and Maxine Savant, born Lillian Maxine Harrison in Groveton, Texas, January 28, 1924, an author and lecturer on sex and sex techniques.
 She is best known as the author of "The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity", the only book ever to be banned by the United States Supreme Court.
** When she was 36 and wrote the book, her legal name was Lillian Maxine Savant, but she wrote under the pseudonym of "Rey Anthony".
 The resulting court case, Ginzburg v. United States, resulted in Ralph Ginzburg serving six months in federal prison for publishing the book, but Savant, the author, was never prosecuted.
 "Maxine Serett" was an assumed name she took on only for the trial.
 At the time of her death from a massive heart attack at age 70 in Pasadena, Texas,** she had been using the assumed name Maxine Sanini for more than two decades.
 An ebook of "Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity," subtitled "Definitive Edition," edited by Toni Savant, one of Serett's five daughters, and containing a biography of the author, was published and posted on Amazon.com on May 26, 2012.
Neelakantha, the 16th century author of Tajika Neelakanthi and Prasna Tantra, and the son of Anantadeva, hailed from Kashmir; his brother, Ramchandra, wrote "Muhurta Chintamani", the famous treatise on Electional Astrology.
 Neelakantha was the court astrologer of the Moghul Emperor, Jalaluddin Akbar.
 According to Deepak Kapoor, Neelakantha was born in the year 1556 The Tajika system of prognostication depends on the Varshaphala, Neelakantha wrote his famous book on Varshaphala, Tajika Neelakanthi, in the year 1587.
 However, B V Raman in the introduction to Prasna Tantra states that in the last part of his Varshatantra (of Tajika Neelakanthi), Neelakantha records that he composed this book on the eighth day of the bright half of Aswija of Saka year 1509 which means 1567 AD.
 There is also evidence that he hailed from Vidarbha and that he was 43 or 44 years old when he wrote this book.
Harry Winkler was an American sitcom writer who wrote for such shows as "The Addams Family", "The George Gobel Show", and others.
 He shared an Emmy award in 1955 for "The George Gobel Show" and was nominated the following year for the same show.
 In that same year, 1956, one of his television scripts was featured in "The Prize Plays of Television and Radio 1956" published by Random House.
 Mr. Winkler also wrote the ground breaking series "Julia" starring Dianne Carroll, the first commercial television series to star an African-American female in the lead role of a single, professional woman with a family to support.
 He also wrote the original treatment "The Flagstones" for what ultimately became known as "The Flintstones".
 Additional credits include having been the ghost writer for the internationally featured Blondie comic strip series for over 25 years, 1955 through 1980.
 He also wrote for a wide variety of other comedy series ranging from Petticoat Junction, to the Brady Bunch, to the Odd Couple.
 In 2014 he received a posthumous award from the Writers Guild of America for his work on the Odd Couple television series, that script having been designated one of the top 100 television screenplays during the first 75 years of commercial television.
 He is also the author of three novels and a theatrical play, "Edges".
Some writers have had prolific careers with hundreds of their works being published.
 While some best-selling authors have written a small number of books that have sold millions of copies, others have had lengthy careers and maintained a high level of output year after year.
 Dame Agatha Christie, the most-published novelist in history, is estimated to have sold 4 billion books, having written 69 novels and 19 plays.
 Her works were published between 1920 and 1976, equating to around three publications every two years.
 Dame Barbara Cartland has also sold millions of copies of her books but wrote many more than Christie.
 She spent 80 years as a novelist with 722 books published, averaging one book released every 40 days of her career.
 While Cartland wrote a significant number of full-length novels, other authors have been published many more times but have specialised in short stories.
 Spanish author Corín Tellado wrote over 5,000 novellas, selling 400 million copies of her books.
Ved Prakash Sharma (10 June 1955 – 17 February 2017) was an Indian writer of novels and screenplays in Hindi.
 He was born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, where he completed his graduation from NAS Degree College.
 Having begun his professional career as a ghost writer, he went on to write 176 novels (ghostwriting around 23 novels of them).
 "Dahekte Shaher" (1973) was the first novel Sharma got credit for.
 He primarily wrote detective novels, among them "Kalyug ki Ramayan" and "Vardi Wala Gunda".
 The main characters in his detective novels were Vijay, Vikas, Alphanse, Vibha Jindal, Keshav pandit and Raina.
 According to his "Times of India" obituary his 1992 novel "Vardi Wala Gunda" "broke all records and sold 15 lakh copies on the very first day of its release", while the "Hindu" reported overall sales of "more than eight crore copies".
Padma Sachdev (born 1940) is an Indian poet and novelist.
 She is the first modern woman poet of the Dogri language.
 She also writes in Hindi.
 She has published several poetry collections, including "Meri Kavita Mere Geet" (My Poems, My Songs), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1971.
 She has also received the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award in 2001, and the Kabir Samman for poetry for the year 2007-08 given by Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Geet Ramayan (Marathi: गीत रामायण , English: "The Ramayana in Songs" ) is a collection of 56 Marathi language songs chronologically describing events from the Indian Hindu epic, the "Ramayana".
 It was broadcast by All India Radio, Pune in 1955–1956, four years before television was introduced in India.
 Written by G. D. Madgulkar and the songs being composed by Sudhir Phadke, "Geet Ramayan" was acclaimed for its lyrics, music and singing.
 It is considered a "milestone of Marathi light music" and the "most popular" Marathi version of "Ramayana".
Geet Chaturvedi (born 27 November 1977, Mumbai, Maharashtra) is a Hindi poet, short story author and novelist.
 Often regarded as an avant-garde, he was awarded the Bharat Bhushan Agrawal Award for poetry in 2007 and Krishna Pratap Award for Fiction in 2014.
 He lives in Bhopal, India.
 He is active both as a fiction writer and critic.
 He has been named one of the 'Ten Best Writers' of India by esteemed English daily The Indian Express.
 He is one of the most widely read contemporary Hindi poet.
 His poems have been translated into seventeen languages worldwide.

Question: In which year was the author who wrote Geet Ramayan born?
Answer: 1919