Question: are Jorge Amado and Anna Quindlen authors?
Context: Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist. One True Thing is a 1998 American drama film directed by Carl Franklin.  It tells the story of a woman who is forced to put her life on hold in order to care for her mother who is dying of cancer.  It was adapted by Karen Croner from the novel by Anna Quindlen.  The novel and film are based on Anna Quindlen's real life and her struggle of dealing with the death of her mother, Prudence Pantano Quindlen in 1972, due to ovarian cancer. Elsimar Metzker Coutinho (Pojuca, May 18, 1930) is a Brazilian scientist of Luso-Austrian descent, professor, gynecologist and television personality, and character named as "Prince of Itapoan", in the books of Jorge Amado which references the Coutinho family's land in Itapoan where Amado himself lived. Jubiabá (] ) is a Brazilian modernist novel written by Jorge Amado in 1935.  It earned Amado an international reputation, being hailed by Albert Camus as “a magnificent and haunting” book. Ilhéus/Bahia-Jorge Amado Airport (IATA: IOS, ICAO: SBIL) , is the airport serving Ilhéus, Brazil.  Since March 12, 2002 it is named after the writer Jorge Amado de Faria (1912–2001), who was born in the nearby city of Itabuna. Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (] , 10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school.  He remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" in 1978.  His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism.  He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences. The Discovery of America by the Turks (Portuguese: A Descoberta da América pelos Turcos) is a Brazilian Modernist novel.  It was written by Jorge Amado in 1994 but not published in English until 2012.  Amado tells how, in 1991, he was approached by an organization in Italy to write a story to celebrate the fifth centennial of the discovery of the American continent.  This would be published in a book, together with stories by Norman Mailer and Carlos Fuentes, which would be handed out to passengers flying between Italy and Central, North and South America in 1992, the year of the fifth centennial.  Amado submitted The Discovery of America by the Turks but the Italian book was never published, leaving Amado free to publish the 77-page story as a separate volume. Zélia Gattai Amado de Faria (July 2, 1916 – May 17, 2008) was a Brazilian photographer, memoirist, novelist and author of children's literature, as well as a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.  She was married to internationally famous writer Jorge Amado from 1945 until his death in 2001. Sea of Death (Portuguese: Mar Morto) is a Brazilian Modernist novel written by Jorge Amado.  Amado wrote the novel in response to his first arrest for "being a communist".  The novel follows the lives of poor fishermen around Bahia, and their relationship with the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, especially the sea goddess Iemanjá.  The novel's style and themes include many traits that characterize Amado's later work. The Violent Land (Portuguese: Terras do Sem Fim) is a Brazilian Modernist novel written by Jorge Amado in 1943 and published in English in 1945.  It describes the battles to develop cacao plantations in the forests of the Bahia state of Brazil.  Amado wrote that "No other of my books. . . is as dear to me as "The Violent Land", in it lie my roots; it is from the blood from which I was created; it contains the gunfire that resounded during my early infancy", and suggested that the novel belongs to a distinct Brazilian "literature of cacao".  By 1965, the book had been adapted as a film, as well as for the stage, television and radio.
Answer: yes