Question: The writer of "Mirrorball" was born in what year?
Context: Stanley Stewart FRSL is a writer.  He is the author of three travel books: "Old Serpent Nile", "Frontiers of Heaven" and "In the Empire of Genghis Khan" about journeys to the source of the Nile, through China to Xinjiang province, and across Mongolia by horse.  The last two books both won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, in 1996 and 2001 respectively, making Stewart the only writer, with Jonathan Raban, to have won this prestigious award twice.  He is a contributing editor at Conde Nast Traveller UK.  His work appears in various periodicals including the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, and National Geographic Traveler, and has been included in numerous anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic.  In 2008 he was named the Magazine Writer of the year.  He was born in Ireland, grew up in Canada, and has spent most of his adult life in the UK. Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English comedian, screenwriter, and actress.  She has won three BAFTAs (including the BAFTA Fellowship), an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a People's Choice Award. Lorraine Broderick (born 1948) is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on "All My Children" as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.  She went on to serve four different stints as its Head Writer, ultimately earning her four Daytime Emmy awards in that capacity.  Broderick's work on the show has often been met with critical acclaim, citing her as its finest head writer outside of Nixon.  She was the last head writer of "All My Children's" 40-year broadcast run on ABC, penning the show through its network finale on September 23, 2011. Marsha Canham (born November 19, 1950) is a Canadian writer of historical romance novels since 1984.  She has won two "Romantic Times" Lifetime Achievement Awards, as well as multiple awards for individual books including Best Historical of the Year, Best Medieval of the Year, Best book of the Year, Storyteller of the Year, Best Swashbuckler of the Year. Dan O'Neill (Daniel T. O'Neill) is an Alaskan writer.  Born in San Francisco, California, in 1950, Dan O'Neill came to Alaska in the 1970s.  Settling in Fairbanks, he did a variety of things, such as building log cabins, dog mushing, working as a laborer, conducting oral history interviews, and as a producer of radio, television, and video productions dealing with history, science, and politics.  Now a full-time writer, he is the author of three Alaskan themed books.  From 1985-1995 he worked for the Oral History Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, including doing project interviews about the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, digitized at Project Jukebox.  These interviews formed the basis of his book "A Land Gone Lonesome," which was awarded an "Editor's Choice" at "The" New York Times Book Review.  He was an opinion columnist for the "Fairbanks Daily News-Miner" from 1998–2002.  O'Neill twice won the Alaska Library Associations's "Alaskana of the Year Award" for the best book on Alaska published anywhere.  He also was named Alaska Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society.  In 2015, the University of Alaska Press published his first book for children, "Stubborn Gal: The True Story of an Undefeated Sled Dog Racer." Mirrorball was a sitcom pilot in the United Kingdom directed by Adrian Edmondson and written by Jennifer Saunders.  It originally aired on 22 December 2000. Benjamin Cook (born 17 October 1982) is an English journalist, writer, film-maker and regular contributor to "Radio Times" and "Doctor Who Magazine".  He has also been published in "The Telegraph", "TV Times", "Filmstar", "Cult Times", "TV Zone" and "The Stage", and is the author of "Doctor Who: The New Audio Adventures – The Inside Story".  In 2008, BBC Books published "Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale", based on a year-long email correspondence between Cook and "Doctor Who" executive producer Russell T Davies.  A revised and updated paperback edition, "The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter" (featuring 350 pages of new material, extending the correspondence by another year), was published in January 2010. Martin Samuel (Born 25 July 1964) has been a sports columnist for the "Daily Mail" newspaper and MailOnline since 2009 and a sports columnist for GQ Magazine since 2012.  He has previously worked for "The Times", "News of the World", Jewish Chronicle, Daily Express, The Sun and Sunday People.  He began his career at Hayters Sports Agency in London.  Samuel was voted Sports Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2007 and 2013, Sports Journalist of the Year at the SJA Sports Journalism Awards in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2013, Sports Journalist of the Year at the 'What The Papers Say' awards in 2002, 2005 and 2006 and Sports Commentator of the Year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards in 2014.  In January 2015, he was named in Debrett's List of the 500 Most Influential People in Britain. Tanya Gold (born 31 December 1973 in Merton, Surrey) is an English journalist.  She was educated at the independent Kingston Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford and has written for British newspapers including "The Guardian", the "Daily Mail", "The Independent", "The Daily Telegraph", "The Sunday Times" and the "Evening Standard", and also for the news magazine "The Spectator".  In 2009 she was highly commended in the Feature Writer of the Year category at the British Press Awards.  In 2010 she won Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards and was also nominated for Columnist of the Year. Tobias Lindholm (born 1977) is a Danish screenwriter and film director best known for gritty moral dramas.  Lindholm first received attention for his work as a television writer on the popular Danish political TV-series "Borgen", credited on all 20 episodes of the series first two seasons, either as an episode writer or storyline contributor.  Then, in 2011, Lindholm was awarded a special Bodil Award for having two feature films "Submarino" (as co-writer) and "R" (as director and writer) in competition for that year's Best Danish Film, which the latter movie also won.  His hostage drama "A Hijacking" (2012) premiered at the 2012 Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti section.
Answer: 1958