Question: Who was born earlier, Peter Ackroyd or Colum McCann?
Context: Colum McCann (born 28 February 1965) is an Irish writer of literary fiction.  He was born in Dublin, Ireland and now lives in New York.  He is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Hunter College, New York with fellow novelists Peter Carey and Tea Obreht, and has visited many universities and colleges all over the world. Zoli is a novel by Colum McCann.  It follows the life of Marienka Novotna, nicknamed "Zoli", a Slovak Romani woman, from her childhood in the 1930s, through her exile in the 1950s, to her late adult life.  Although Zoli is a fictional character, her life is loosely based on that of the Polish Romani poet Papusza (Bronisława Wajs). Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by the English writer Peter Ackroyd.  It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize.  It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, detective in the 1980s, who investigates murders committed in the same churches.  "Hawksmoor" has been praised as Peter Ackroyd's best novel and an example of postmodernism. Dancer is a novel based on the life of Rudolf Nureyev, written by Colum McCann and published in 2003. Peter Ackroyd, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London.  For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards.  He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research. TransAtlantic is a novel by Colum McCann, published in June 2013. English Music is the sixth novel by Peter Ackroyd.  Published in 1992, it is both a "bildungsroman" and, in the words of critic John Barrell, "partly a series of rhapsodies and meditations on the nature of English culture, written in the styles of various great authors."  As with all Ackroyd's previous novels, it focuses on London, although on this occasion partly as a backdrop for English culture in general. Let the Great World Spin is a novel by Colum McCann set in New York City in the United States.  The book won the 2009 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the most lucrative literary prizes in the world.  Its title comes from the poem "Locksley Hall" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Mícheál Ó hAodha was born in Galway, Ireland, the eldest of 11 children, Ó hAodha grew up between the west of Ireland and the north of England.  He is one of the last of a very small group of poets who write in both Irish and English.  His first collection, the bilingual “Survivor” Dúchas Dóchasach (2007) was introduced by National Book Award winner Colum McCann and illustrated by Irish-African artist Jean Hakizimana.  His collection "Slán le hÉireann (Coiscéim] 2012)" (A Farewell to Ireland: Migrant Poems) on the experiences of Irish construction workers in England received high praise in "Poetry Ireland" and other publications. Jeffrey Rotter is a writer.  He has written for numerous publications, including "The New York Times", "Spin magazine", ESPN, "McSweeney’s", "The Literary Review" and "The New York Observer".  In 2006 he completed his MFA in fiction at Hunter College, where he studied under Peter Carey, Colson Whitehead, Colum McCann, and Andrew Sean Greer.  At Hunter he was awarded a Hertog Fellowship to perform research for Jennifer Egan.  A longtime Brooklyn resident, he lives with his wife and their small boy, Felix.
Answer: Peter Ackroyd