Question: Alan Furst and Lee Child are what?
Context: Kingdom of Shadows (2000) is a novel by Alan Furst.  It won the 2001 Hammett Prize. James D. "Jim" Grant (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is most well-known for his "Jack Reacher" novel series.  The books follow the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States.  His first novel, "Killing Floor", won both the Anthony Award, and the Barry Award for Best First Novel. The Spies of Warsaw is a 2008 spy novel by Alan Furst about espionage involving the major nations shortly before World War II competing for influence and control over the future of Poland.  The story starts in October 1937 and ends in May 1938, with a one paragraph description outlining the future of the two lead characters. The Polish Officer (1995) is a novel by Alan Furst. The World at Night (1996) is a novel by Alan Furst. Michael MacConnell is an Australian author.  His first fiction novel, "Maelstrom", was released in October 2007 by Hachette Livre.  The first sequel novel "Splinter", was released in July 2008.  Both novels have been published in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.  He is a member of the International Thriller Writers Organization.  An avid reader of crime and thriller fiction since he was a child, some of his greatest writing influences were David Morrell, Raymond E. Feist, Alex Kava, Daniel Silva, Dean Koontz, Lee Child, Michael Cordy, and Steven Pressfield.  His first novel, "Maelstrom", made the Ned Kelly Award long list in the Best Debut Novel category. The Affair is the sixteenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child but is a prequel set chronologically before most of them.  It was published on 29 September 2011 in the United Kingdom and was published on 27 September 2011 in the USA.  "The Affair" is a prequel set six months before Child's first novel, "Killing Floor" and setting out the explosive circumstances under which Reacher's career in the United States Army was terminated.  This book is written in the first person. The National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, established in 1840 under the editorship of Lydia Maria Child and David Lee Child.  The paper published continuously until the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1870.  Its motto was "“Without Concealment—Without Compromise.”"  It not only implies suffrage rights for colored males, but also women’s suffrage as well.  It contained Volume I, number 1, June 11, 1840 through volume XXX, number 50, April 16, 1870. After graduating from Stanford and getting his masters in English Literature from Harvard, Stone (b. 1951) joined the Peace Corps, where he spent two years in the Republic of Niger.  Returning to his home state of New York, he then started a career as an editor.  He began at Harcourt Brace, where he edited a wide range of books, including Patricia Bosworth’s biography of Montgomery Clift.  He then worked at Bantam Books, where he helped launch its hardcover division by acquiring such books as Albert Goldman’s biography of John Lennon and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s autobiography.  Next, he worked as a senior editor at "Esquire Magazine", editing authors ranging from Alan Furst and Bobbie Ann Mason to Michael Kinsley and Joel Kotkin.  He then moved to Los Angeles, where he was West Coast editor of Simon and Schuster, a consulting editor at the "Los Angeles Times", and editor in chief of "California Magazine". Alan Furst (born February 20, 1941) is an American author of historical spy novels. Furst has been called "an heir to the tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene," whom he cites along with Joseph Roth and Arthur Koestler as important influences.  Most of his novels since 1988 have been set just prior to or during the Second World War and he is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944.
Answer: is a British author