Question: Are W. E. B. Du Bois and Dan Simmons both writers?
Context: The W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite (or W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite) is a National Historic Landmark in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, commemorating an important location in the life of African American intellectual and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963).  The site contains foundational remnants of the home of Du Bois' grandfather, where Du Bois lived for the first five years of his life.  Du Bois was given the house in 1928, and planned to renovate it, but was unable to do so.  He sold it in 1954 and the house was torn down later that decade.  The site is located on South Egremont Road (state routes 23 and 41), west of the junction with Route 71. William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.  Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community.  After completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University.  Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. The Star of Ethiopia is an American historical pageant written by leading New Negro intellectual, W. E. B. Du Bois in 1911.  Outlining the history of African-Americans throughout time, pageants were held in high regard by Du Bois who felt that Pageants could be utilized best as a form of educational theatre, or as an instructional tool to not only teach African Americans the meaning of their history, but also enlighten whites as to "reveal the negro...as human."  Despite his minimal experience in playwriting, Pageant Movement intellectual W.E.B DuBois composed and constructed for the stage "The Star of Ethiopia" to be presented as an American historical pageant. Dark Princess, written by sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois in 1928, is one of his five historical novels.  One of Du Bois's favorite works, the novel explores the beauty of people of color around the world.  This was part of Du Bois' use of fiction to explore his times in a way not possible in non-fiction history.  He expressed fully imagined lives of his characters, using them to explore the richness and beauty of black culture.  The novel was not well received when published.  It was criticized for its expression of eroticism as well as for what some critics thought was a failed attempt at social realism. "The Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line" was a monthly periodical in publication during the years 1907 to 1910.  It was the primary communication outlet for the Niagara Movement, and was edited by African-American editor, scholar and author W. E. B. Du Bois.  The magazine was written primarily by African Americans and addressed many African-American themes.  After the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed, publication ceased as Du Bois turned his attention to the NAACP's magazine, "The Crisis", which he also edited.  Prior to "The Horizon", Du Bois published a comparable magazine, " Moon Illustrated Weekly", which lasted for one year in 1906. The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research is located at Harvard University and was established in 1969.  It is named after W. E. B. Du Bois, who was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1895). Akosua Adoma Owusu (born January 1, 1984) is a Ghanaian-American avant-garde filmmaker and producer whose films have screened worldwide in prestigious film festivals, museums, galleries, universities and microcinemas since 2005.  “Owusu uses various production techniques to visualize a state of "triple consciousness", a term she coined in reference to a central tenet of the sociologist and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois’s landmark text "The Souls of Black Folk" (1903).  Du Bois' double consciousness accounts for the experience of black Americans negotiating a sense of selfhood in the face of discrimination and cultural dislocation.  As part of the first generation in her family to be born in the United States, Owusu extends Du Bois’s concept to speak to the crisis of heritage and assimilation for African expatriates and their US-born children."  Owusu has stated that “instead of ‘Africanizing’ Western stories, I’m interested in reclaiming African history rendering them into what is happening in the present day.” Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer.  He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel.  A typical example of Simmons' intermingling of genres is "Song of Kali" (1985), winner of World Fantasy Award.  He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz. W. E. B. Du Bois High School of Environmental Science (officially referred to as W. E. B. Du Bois High School) is a public high school located in northeast Baltimore, Maryland.  The school is named after sociologist and civil-rights activist Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois.  The school is situated in the former Northern High School and shares the structure with the Reginald F. Lewis High School. Nathan Irvin Huggins (1927-1989) was a distinguished American historian, author and educator.  As a leading scholar in the field of African-American studies, he was W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University as well as director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research.  Born in Chicago in 1927, he died in Cambridge, Massachusetts December 5, 1989.
Answer: yes