Question: Amadou Hampâté Bâ and Arnold Bennett were both what?

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Amadou Bâ: Amadou Bâ (11 December 1892 – 6 March 1967), also known as Doudou Ba, was a Senegalese politician, adjunct to the mayor of Dakar and minister.

José C. Vales: José C. Vales (born 1965, Zamora) is a Spanish writer and translator of English literature.  He studied in Salamanca and Madrid.  He has translated numerous English and American authors into Spanish, including Dickens, Trollope, Austen, Wilkie Collins, Defoe, Mary Shelley, Arnold Bennett, Eudora Welty, Stella Gibbons, E.F. Benson, and Edmund Crispin.

The Grand Babylon Hotel: The Grand Babylon Hotel is a novel by Arnold Bennett, published in January 1902, about the mysterious disappearance of a German prince.  It originally appeared as a serial in the "Golden Penny".  The titular Grand Babylon was modelled on the Savoy Hotel which Bennett had much later also used as a model for his 1930 novel "Imperial Palace".

Darling of the Day: Darling of the Day is a musical with a book by Nunnally Johnson, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, and music by Jule Styne.  It is based on Arnold Bennett's novel "Buried Alive" and his play "The Great Adventure".  The show closed after only 31 performances on Broadway in 1968.

Literary Taste: How to Form It: Literary Taste: How to Form it is a long essay by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1909, with a revised edition by his friend Frank Swinnerton appearing in 1937.  It includes a long list of recommended books, every item individually costed.

The Great Adventure (1921 film): The Great Adventure is a 1921 American silent romantic comedy film produced by Whitman Bennett and distributed by First National Pictures, then called Associated First National.  The film was directed by Kenneth Webb and starred Lionel Barrymore.  Fredric March made his screen debut in this film.  The film is based upon the novel "Buried Alive" by Arnold Bennett.  It was remade in 1933 as "His Double Life" starring Lillian Gish.  "The Great Adventure" is a surviving feature film held by the Library of Congress.

Arnold Bennett: Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English writer.  He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propaganda and films.

Amadou Hampâté Bâ: Amadou Hampâté Bâ (January or February 1901 – May 15, 1991) was a Malian writer and ethnologist.

The Clayhanger Family: The "Clayhanger" Family is a series of novels by Arnold Bennett, published between 1910 and 1918.  Though the series is commonly referred to as a "trilogy", and the first three novels were published in a single volume, as "The Clayhanger Family", in 1925, there are actually four books.  All four are set in the "Five Towns", Bennett's thinly disguised version of the six towns of the Potteries district that merged into the borough (later city) of Stoke-on-Trent.  Buildings described in the novels are still identifiable in Burslem, the basis for the fictional town of "Bursley".

The Old Wives' Tale: The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908.  It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age.  It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Burslem and Paris.  It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works.

Supporting paragraphs: Amadou Hampâté Bâ Arnold Bennett
Answer: writer