Question: Nick Stone is the main fictional character in a series of books written by an author born in what year?
Context: Joop ter Heul was a fictional character in a series of five books written for teenage girls by Dutch novelist Setske de Haan (1889-1948), who wrote under the pen name Cissy van Marxveldt.  Joop was high-spirited, headstrong and stubborn.  The first four books, published over a six-year period (1919-1925) deal with her high school years, her young adulthood, her marriage, and her sons.  The last book was not written until more than 20 years later.  The initial four books are best remembered today for being a very strong influence on diarist Anne Frank, both in the character of Joop, whom she identified with, and in the epistolary style in which the books were written, which she adapted for her own diary. The Nick Stone Missions are a series of action thriller novels written by author Andy McNab, based on his own experiences in the SAS.  The first book in the series, "Remote Control" was published in February 1998 by Transworld Publishers under their Corgi imprint. Paddington Bear is a fictional character in children's literature.  He first appeared on 13 October 1958 in the children's book "A Bear Called Paddington" and has been featured in more than twenty books written by English author Michael Bond and illustrated by Peggy Fortnum and other artists.  The friendly bear from deepest, darkest Peru—with his old hat, battered suitcase (complete with a secret compartment, enabling it to hold more items than it would appear to), duffel coat and love of marmalade—has become a classic character from English children's literature.  Paddington books have been translated into 30 languages across 70 titles and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.  A much loved fictional character in British culture, a Paddington Bear soft toy was chosen by British tunnellers as the first item to pass through to their French counterparts when the two sides of the Channel Tunnel were linked in 1994. Eric Northman is a fictional character in "The Southern Vampire Mysteries," a series of thirteen books written by "New York Times" bestselling author Charlaine Harris.  He is a vampire, slightly over one thousand years old, and is first introduced in the first novel, "Dead Until Dark" and appears in all subsequent novels.  Since the book series is told from the first person perspective of Sookie Stackhouse, what readers perceive of his character is influenced by what Sookie comprehends.  HBO's television series "True Blood" is based on this book series and the character of Eric Northman is portrayed somewhat differently.  A list of "True Blood" characters has a detailed description of Eric's character from the TV show. Brother Cadfael is the main fictional character in a series of historical murder mysteries written between 1977 and 1994 by the linguist-scholar Edith Pargeter under the name "Ellis Peters".  The character of Cadfael himself is a Welsh Benedictine monk living at the Abbey of St Peter and St Paul, in Shrewsbury, western England, in the first half of the 12th century.  The historically accurate stories are set between about 1135 and about 1145, during "The Anarchy", the destructive contest for the crown of England between King Stephen and Empress Maud. The Journal of Arthur Stirling is a novel by author Upton Sinclair, published in 1903.  It is written in a first-person perspective, with the main fictional character being Arthur Stirling.  Stirling, unknown poet and writer sets out to write his first poem, "The Captive".  He begins writing a journal to help him further his work as an artist—the novel being the journal.  The novel begins with an introduction by a character who calls himself, "S."; Stirling already dead by suicide, sends S. a copy of the journal, as well as "The Captive" for him to read.  S. explains the production of the novel in a sense of tribute to Stirling. Nick Stone is the main fictional character in a series of books written by Andy McNab, who is an ex-member of British Army regiment the SAS.  Andy McNab has written about Nick Stone in eighteen different books.  Nick has undertaken many missions including kidnapping a powerful Russian Mafia lord and killing a money-laundering Algerian business man. James Green aka Sudden is a fictional character created by an English author Oliver Strange in the early 1930s as the hero of a series, originally published by George Newnes Books Ltd, set in the American Wild West era.  Oliver Strange died in 1952, and the series was revived by Frederick H. Christian in the 1960s.  Christian classified the books as "Piccadilly westerns", that is books written by English authors, simply drawing on the conventions the genre, with no first hand experience of America.  The Sudden books are among the earliest and best-loved of the type.  Sudden is portrayed as an intrepid and accurate gunfighter in search of two men who cheated his foster father.  James Green earns the nickname "Sudden" because of his lightning speed with a gun.  Sudden is portrayed as a stereotypical gunfighter: an intelligent and resourceful drifting cowboy who is respectful of the law, unwilling to use a gun unless absolutely necessary, humanitarian, brave, strong, and fair.  The first book was published in 1930 and was followed by 10 more until the 1940s and featured vivid descriptions of the western American landscape, rare in an author at that time.  The series became popular for its exciting narrations combining elements of mystery, suspense, and action, with engaging characters, in a Wild West setting of dusty towns, ranches, and saloons. Steven Billy Mitchell, (born 28 December 1959), usually known by the pseudonym and pen-name of Andy McNab, is an English novelist and former Special Air Service sergeant. This James Patterson Bibliography contains the list of books written and published by James Patterson.  The list below separates the books into two main categories: books written for adults and books written for children and teens.  Within those two categories, the books are further divided into three subcategories: fiction series, standalone fiction, or standalone nonfiction.
Answer: 1959