Question: Which writer was also a singer, Zane Grey or Richard Fariña?
Context: "Birmingham Sunday" is a song written by Richard Fariña and performed by both Fariña and his sister-in-law Joan Baez.  The subject matter is the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963 by members of the Ku Klux Klan that killed four girls and injured 22 others. Richard George Fariña (March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966) was an American folksinger, songwriter, poet and novelist. The Swallow Song is a folk-music song written in 1964 by Richard Fariña.  It was likely based on Dimitrie Cantemir's "Los Paxaricos", which contains an identical melody.  The song was recorded on Richard & Mimi Fariña's second LP, 1965’s "Reflections in a Crystal Wind " and was included on Joan Baez's 1995 album "Ring Them Bells". The Zane Grey Cabin on the Rogue River in Oregon is a cabin built in 1926 by Zane Grey (1872–1939), the master author of the American West.  Grey used it as a frequent retreat until 1935. King of the Royal Mounted is an American comic book series created in 1935 by Stephen Slesinger, based on popular Western writer Zane Grey's byline and marketed as "Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted".  The series' protagonist is Dave King, a Canadian Mountie who always gets his man and who, over the course of the series, is promoted from Corporal to Sergeant.  King has appeared in newspaper strips, comics, Big Little Books, and other ancillary items. Romer Zane Grey (October 1, 1909 - March 8, 1976) was the eldest son of novelist Zane Grey.  Romer was born October 1, 1909 at Lackawaxen, Penn.  Zane and Dolly Grey had three children: Romer, Betty, and Loren.  Romer was named after an uncle Romer Carl Grey, known as Reddy Grey. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is a novel by Richard Fariña.  First published in the United States in 1966 the novel, based largely on Fariña's college experiences and travels, is a comic picaresque story that is set in the Western United States, in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution, and at an upstate New York university.  The name of the protagonist is Gnossos Pappadopoulis, a modern Odysseus.  The book has become something of a cult classic among those who study 1960s or counterculture literature. The Thundering Herd is a 1933 American pre-Code Western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Randolph Scott, Judith Allen, Buster Crabbe, Noah Beery, Sr. and Harry Carey.  Based on the novel "The Thundering Herd" by Zane Grey, the film is about two buffalo hunters (portrayed by Randolph Scott and Harry Carey) who face dangers with the Indians and a gang of outlaws.  "The Thundering Herd" is a remake of the 1925 film "The Thundering Herd".  Both Noah Beery, Sr. and Raymond Hatton, Wallace Beery's frequent screen comedy partner during the late 1920s, reprised their roles.  The film is now in the public domain and also known as Buffalo Stampede, the title Favorite Films used in their 1950 reissue of the film.  Hathaway directed much of the same cast (Scott, Beery, Carey and Crabbe) that same year in another Zane Grey story, "Man of the Forest". Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American dentist and author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. " Riders of the Purple Sage" (1912) was his best-selling book.  In addition to the commercial success of his printed works, they had second lives and continuing influence when adapted as films and television productions.  His novels and short stories have been adapted into 112 films, two television episodes, and a television series, "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater". The Zane Grey Museum in Lackawaxen Township, Pennsylvania, United States, is a former residence of the author Zane Grey and is now maintained as a museum and operated by the National Park Service (NPS).  It is located on the upper Delaware River and is on the National Register of Historic Places.  It contains many photographs, artworks, books, furnishings, and other objects of interest associated with Grey and his family.
Answer: Richard George Fariña