Title: Jesse Ball
Content:  Ball was born into a middle-class, English-speaking Irish-Sicilian family in Port Jefferson, New York, on Long Island. Ball's father worked in Medicaid; his mother worked in libraries. His brother, Abram, was born with Down's syndrome and attended a school some distance from the place where they lived. Ball attended Port Jefferson High School, and matriculated at Vassar College. Following Vassar, Ball attended Columbia University, where he earned an MFA and met the poet Richard Howard. Howard helped the then 24-year-old poet publish his first volume, March Book, with Grove Press. In Iceland, Ball met Thordis Bjornsdottir, a poet and author who he collaborated with on two books, married, and later divorced. Ball and the writer Catherine Lacey have been partners since 2016. Ball has lived for ten years in Chicago. He is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches courses on lying, ambiguity, dreaming, and walking.
Title: Jared Ball
Content:  Ball is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park, the Cornell Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University and Frostburg State University. Ball is the author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), ''I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto and co-editor of  A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X, a critique of Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention''. He has also been known for his work on Pacifica Radio, Black Agenda Report and iMiXWHATiLiKE.ORG.
Title: Edward Ball (American author)
Content:  Edward Ball is an American author who has written works of history and biography. He is best known for works that explore the complex past of his family, whose members were major rice planters and slaveholders in South Carolina for nearly 300 years. Among his books is one about an African-American family, descended from one member of this family and an enslaved woman, whose members became successful artists and musicians in the Jazz Age. The Ball Family Slaveholder Index (BFSI) reports that between 1698 and 1865, six generations of the Ball family "owned more than twenty rice plantations in Lowcountry South Carolina and enslaved nearly 4,000 Africans and African Americans." Edward Ball, who completed his MA in 1984, worked as a free-lance journalist before he began researching and writing about his family's 
Title: John Ball (novelist)
Content:  Ball was born in Schenectady, New York, grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He wrote for a number of magazines and newspapers, including the Brooklyn Eagle. For a time he worked as a part-time reserve deputy for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office, was trained in martial arts, and was a nudist. In the mid-1980s, he was the book review columnist for Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. Ball lived in Encino, California, and died there in 1988. He was a member of the exclusive The Baker Street Irregulars, a society of ardent Sherlock Holmes fans. He was 
Title: Margaret Ball (writer)
Content:  Margaret Elizabeth Ball (born November 7, 1947) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and historical novels. Under the pseudonym of Catherine Lyndell, she has also written romance. Ball has a B.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Texas. A former Fulbright scholar and UCLA professor, she devotes her time to fabric arts and embeadery. Married with two children, she lives in Austin, Texas.
Title: I, Ball
Content:  I, Ball is a vertically scrolling shooter published for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1987 by Firebird. It was programmed by Timothy Closs. The C64 version features music written by Rob Hubbard, based on two tunes by Cabaret Voltaire called "Whip Blow" and "I Want You". Hubbard was commissioned to write music based on the style of the band. The audio also includes synthesised speech. It was followed by a sequel, I, Ball 2, released later the same year.
Title: Ball (surname)
Content: Catherine Ball, known as the Baroness de Calabrella (c. 1788–1856), British writer and newspaper owner ; Clifford Ball, author ; David W. Ball (born 1949), American novelist ; Donna Ball (born 1951), writer ; Edward Ball (American author) (born 1959) ; Franklin R. Ball (born 1931), American author and adventurer ; Hugo Ball (1886–1927), German author and poet ; Isabel Worrell Ball (1855–1931), American journalist and editor ; John Ball (Puritan) (1585–1640), English author and scholar ; John Ball (pioneer) (1794–1884), American explorer ; John Ball (novelist) (1911–1988), American novelist ; Phil Ball (writer) (born 1957), British writer based in Spain ; Philip Ball (born 1962), English science writer ; Samuel Ball (educator) (1935–2009), Australian education researcher 
Title: Ball (song)
Content:  "Ball" is a song by American hip hop recording artist T.I., released on October 16, 2012, as the second official single from his eighth studio album Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head (2012). The song features a guest appearance from fellow American rapper Lil Wayne, as well as production and uncredited vocals from American record producer Rico Love. In 2013, the song was included on the soundtrack to the film Fast & Furious 6.
Title: Ann Ball
Content:  Ball was born in 1944, a daughter of Ora Louise and Julian Bolton. She graduated Jacksonville High School in 1962 and went on to earn her Bachelor of Science from the University of Houston. Throughout her career, Ball held a variety of jobs, working as an author, school teacher, private investigator and operator for a security company. Following her workday, Ball would then author books on Catholicism, ranging from spirituality to history. She held a special interest in Hispanic Catholicism, especially regarding the life of Miguel Pro, who she authored a book on. Ball wrote that she was especially inspired by Pope John Paul II, who she considered a hero for acting on the calls of the Second Vatican Council. She died from a heart attack on June 8, 2008, in Houston, Texas, survived by her two sons, a daughter, and eight grandchildren.
Title: Ball (surname)
Content: Alice Ball (1892-1916), chemist; invented the Ball Method for treating leprosy ; Benjamin Ball (physician) (1833–1893), English-born French psychiatrist ; Bobby Ball (racing driver) (1925–1954), American racing driver ; Catherine Ball, English-Australian businesswomen involved in making drones ; Elmer Darwin Ball (1870–1943), American entomologist ; Ernest Aubrey Ball (1909–1997), American botanist ; George Ball (entomologist) (born 1926), American entomologist ; John M. Ball (born 1948), British mathematician ; John Ball (cognitive scientist) (born 1963), American cognitive scientist ; John Ball (geologist) (1872–1941), English geologist ; John Ball (naturalist) (1818–1889), Irish naturalist and politician, MP for County Carlow 1857–1880 ; Keith Martin Ball (born 1960), English mathematician ; Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853–1916), German-Austrian astronomer ; Loren C. Ball (born 1948), American astronomer ; Mary Ball (1812–1892), Irish naturalist and entomologist ; Peter William Ball (born 1932), English-born Canadian botanist ; Robert Ball (naturalist) (1802–1857), Irish naturalist ; Robert Stawell Ball (1840–1913), Irish astronomer ; Webb C. Ball (1847–1922), American railroad engineer who established the first rules for railroad chronometers ; William Ball (astronomer) (or Balle), British astronomer; founder Fellow of the Royal Society 

Question: Who is the author of The Ball?
Answer: James Shirley.