Question: Chinua Achebe and John Braine were both what?
Context: Room at the Top is a novel by John Braine, first published in the United Kingdom by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1957, about the rise of an ambitious young man of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war Britain.  A film adaptation was made in 1959, followed in 2012 by a TV film.  John Minton's cover art from the first edition was restored and used on the new edition by Valancourt Books in 2013. Room at the Top is a 1959 British film based on the novel of the same name by John Braine.  The novel was adapted by Neil Paterson with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler.  It was directed by Jack Clayton and produced by John and James Woolf.  The film stars Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston and Hermione Baddeley. Anthills of the Savannah is a 1987 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe.  It was his fifth novel, first published in the UK 21 years after Achebe's previous one ("A Man of the People" in 1966), and was credited with having "revived his reputation in Britain".  A finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize for Fiction, "Anthills of the Savannah" has been described as the "most important novel to come out of Africa in the [1980s]".  Critics praised the novel upon its release. The Jealous God is a novel by John Braine which was first published in 1964.  Set in the early 1960s among the Irish Catholic community in a small Yorkshire town, the book is about a 30-year-old mummy's boy and his attempts at liberating himself from his domineering mother.  The title refers to the latter's wish that her "favourite" son, although already rather old for following his alleged vocation, become a clergyman.  It was said that it was John Braine's personal favourite novel of all those that he wrote and was finally filmed in 2005. The Jealous God (2005) is a 1960s set feature film by British writer-director Steven Woodcock.  It is based on the novel by John Braine.  The opening scenes were filmed in the grammar school in Bradford where Braine was once a pupil.  Braine became famous in 1957 for his classic "Room at the Top", a book that shocked when first published because of how it exploded British class and sexual mores of the time.  There’s a clip from the Oscar-winning 1958 film version of "Room at the Top" in "The Jealous God", when Vincent and Laura are seen sitting in a cinema.  Allan Gill in his extraordinary movie debut, dazzles as inquisitive schoolboy #4. Man at the Top was a British television series originally aired on ITV lasting for 23 episodes between 1970 and 1972.  The series depicted the character of Joe Lampton, the protagonist of John Braine's novel "Room at the Top" and of two subsequent films, "Room at the Top" and "Life at the Top".  In 1973 a spin-off film from the series, "Man at the Top", was released. Chinua Achebe ( , born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.  His first novel "Things Fall Apart" (1958), often considered his best, is the most widely read book in modern African literature.  He won the Man Booker International Prize in 2007. The Mbari Club was a centre for cultural activity by African writers, artists and musicians that was founded in Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1961 by Ulli Beier, with the involvement of a group of young writers including Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe. " Mbari", an Igbo concept related to "creation", was suggested as the name by Achebe.  Among other Mbari members were Christopher Okigbo, J. P. Clark and South African writer Ezekiel Mphahlele, Frances Ademola, Demas Nwoko, Mabel Segun, Uche Okeke, Arthur Nortje and Bruce Onobrakpeya. John Gerard Braine (13 April 1922 – 28 October 1986) was an English novelist.  Braine is usually listed among the Angry Young Men, a loosely defined group of English writers who emerged on the literary scene in the 1950s. Chike and the River is a children's story by Chinua Achebe.  It was first published in 1966 by Cambridge University Press, with illustrations by Prue Theobalds, and was the first of several children's stories Achebe would write.
Answer: novelist