Title: The Pickup
Content:  The Pickup is a 2001 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. It tells the story of a couple: Julie Summers, a white woman from a financially secure family, and Abdu, an illegal Arab immigrant in South Africa. After Abdu's visa is refused, the couple returns to his unnamed homeland, where she is the alien. Her experiences and growth as an alien in another culture form the heart of the work. The Pickup considers the issues of displacement, alienation, and immigration, class and economic power, religious faith, and the ability of people to see and love across these divides. This novel won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Best Book from Africa.
Title: Pick-Up Sticks (novel)
Content:  Pick-Up Sticks is a children's novel by Canadian author Sarah Ellis. The novel received the 1991 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. The story is told from the perspective of a thirteen-year-old girl, Polly, as she experiences the struggles of losing her home and her comfortable life. Ellis stated that it was inspired by an interview with a homeless woman who was no longer able to care for her family.
Title: Pick-Up Sticks (novel)
Content:  Pick-Up Sticks won the Governor General's Awards for Children’s Literature in 1991 and was the School Library Journal's Best Book of the Year. Some reactions to the book include: “...ordinary people, simple events, big themes. A lovely book." (Toronto Sun); "Ellis deftly presents believable characters and situations, and shows how the spirit of family can be captured in non-traditional relationships." (Edmonton Journal) and "Ellis’s writing is lean and child-centered; her insights are perceptive and have an unmistakable ring of honesty." (The Horn Book Magazine) Canadian Literature praised it for rejecting any easy solution for Polly's problems, though they found the presentation of wealthy characters relied on stereotypes. Publishers Weekly found Ellis's style to be "quiet" and "nonintrusive" rather than dazzling, but considered this well-suited to a low-key "slight" story.
Title: Pickup Man
Content:  "Pickup Man" is a song written by Kerry Kurt Phillips and Howard Perdew, and recorded by American country music artist Joe Diffie. It was released in October 1994 as the second single from the album Third Rock from the Sun. The song was his longest-lasting Number One hit, having spent four weeks at Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts between December 1994 and January 1995.
Title: PICK-UP (band)
Content:  PICK-UP was founded in 2005, consisting of Kostya Leontovich and his friend Alexey Ignatusha and Andrey Kropolnitsky, along with Sergei Pankratiev on drums. Title PICK-UP come spontaneously, when the boys had to write something on the booklet of their first concert. Before the end of 2007 the band managed to play at more than thirty Ukrainian festivals and concerts. But PICK-UP paved the way to fame on their own, and not everything was so cloudless: the group had to play in a small dirty clubs, to carry equipment on their shoulders and to go on tour by old trains at their own expense. Not 
Title: PICK-UP (band)
Content:  PICK-UP is a Ukrainian alternative rock band from Kyiv, in existence since 2005. Members of the group are Kostya Leontovich (vocals, guitar), Michael Orlov (bass guitar), Danil Kalashnikov(drums). The group has developed a so-called "PICK-UP Sound" — a combination of many musical styles, heavy guitar sound and drive, decorated with beautiful electronic improvisations. In their songs the band raises themes of love, relationships, emotions, beliefs, and social problems. The name of the band is not just a combination of words, but the idea that their songs can lift the spirit of the people. In autumn 2009, they released the song "Bilshe Positiva" (More Positive), which hit the rotation of many radio stations in Ukraine, including Radio NRJ, and Europa Plus. In April 2010 the band signed with an American company iUA Music and releases EP "Closer" worldwide. While remaining an independent artist, PICK-UP organized something that is the epitome of creativity of each participant.
Title: Picking Up Sticks
Content:  reconstructed by Greg Lindahl
Title: Pick-Up Sticks (novel)
Content:  Finding Oneself: the author states that there is nothing that scares her more than the idea of being homeless and losing a sense of who she is. As Polly loses the security of her home and material possessions, she is forced to find out who she is and grows closer to her mother in the process.
Title: Pick It Up (Redman song)
Content:  "Pick It Up" is a song by American rapper Redman recorded for his third album Muddy Waters (1996). The song was released as the third and final single for the album on May 13, 1997.
Title: Pick-Up Sticks (novel)
Content:  hanging out with her cousin and seeing Stephanie participate in shopping and vandalizing leads her to jump out of the car and desperately run to see her mother at the warehouse where her mother worked. Polly begins to talk to her mother at this point and finds out more about her history with why her mother choose to have her, and that her mother had finally found a place for them to live. Through these experiences she learns that despite their financial situation she has a mother who loves her and she discovers who she is as a person.

Question: Who is the author of The Pickup?
Answer: Nadine Gordimer.