Question: What kind of books does American author William Kennedy and French-Canadian author S. M. Stirling write?

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An Island in the Soup: An Island in the Soup is a children's book written and illustrated by French-Canadian author Mireille Levert, intended for children ages 3–5.  It was first published on May 1, 2001 by Douglas & McIntyre/Groundwood Books.  "An Island in the Soup" is an intriguing tale that provides a fun and imaginative twist on children playing with and in their food and tells a story of fantasy and imagination incorporating both mother and child through a grand dinner time adventure.  Mireille Levert won the Governor General's Literary Award for English Illustration for "An Island in the Soup" in 2001.  It is "a wonderful book [...] full of illustrations that delight and stimulate.  What sets it apart is the clever and creative journey, which appeals to children of all ages."

Scaredy Squirrel: Scaredy Squirrel is a children's book series written and illustrated by French-Canadian author Mélanie Watt.  The books have won several awards.  The first book of the Scaredy Squirrel series was published in March 2006 by Kids Can Press.  A television series based on the books began in 2011.

99 Fables: 99 Fables is a book of fables by American author William March.  The collection was first written around 1938 (there were ca. 125 fables then) but was never published as a whole.  More than 40 had been published in journals and magazines such as "Prairie Schooner", "Kansas Magazine", "Rocky Mountain Review", and "New York Post".  Not long before his death in 1954, March returned to the collection and edited it, leaving 99 fables in all.  March's manuscripts of the fables were further edited in 1959 by William T. Going, and published in 1960 by the University of Alabama Press, with illustrations by Richard Brough.  The cover won an award at the 1960 Southern Books Competition.

William Kennedy (author): William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York, the son of William J. Kennedy and to Mary E. McDonald.  Kennedy was raised a Catholic.  Many of his novels feature the interactions of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family and make use of incidents of Albany's history and the supernatural.  Kennedy's works include "The Ink Truck" (1969), "Legs" (1975), "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game" (1978), "Ironweed" (1983, winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; movie, 1987), and "Roscoe" (2002).  In 2011, he published "Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes", which one reviewer called a book "written with such brio and encompassing humanity that it may well deserve to be called the best of the bunch".

John Gilmore (writer): John "Jonathan" Gilmore (July 5, 1935 - October 13, 2016) was an American author and gonzo journalist known for iconoclastic Hollywood memoirs, true crime literature and hard-boiled fiction.  A motion picture, television and stage actor in Los Angeles and New York in the 1950s, his friends including James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, Gilmore has also written about his encounter with Elizabeth Short a.k.a. "The Black Dahlia" during his youth.  Gilmore emerged as a writer from the Beat Generation in the '60s, influenced by Jack Kerouac and befriended by author William S. Burroughs.  The publication of his true crime book "Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia," ushered in a cult following for the author.  His manuscripts and original writings are housed in the special collections department of the Research Library of the University of California at Los Angeles.

The Mansion (novel): The Mansion is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1959.  It is the last in a trilogy of books about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi, following "The Hamlet" and "The Town".

S. M. Stirling: Stephen Michael Stirling (born September 30, 1953) is a French-born Canadian-American science-fiction and fantasy author.  Stirling is probably best known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and his later time travel/alternate history Nantucket series and Emberverse series.

The Ticket That Exploded: The Ticket That Exploded is a 1962 novel by American author William S. Burroughs, published by Olympia Press and later by Grove Press in 1967.  Together with "The Soft Machine" and "Nova Express" it is part of a trilogy, referred to as "The Nova Trilogy", created using the cut-up technique, although for this book Burroughs used a variant called 'the fold-in' method.  The novel is an anarchic tale concerning mind control by psychic, electronic, sexual, pharmaceutical, subliminal, and other means.  Passages from the other two books and even from this book show up in rearranged form and are often repeated.  This work is significant for fans of Burroughs, in that it describes his idea of language as a virus and his philosophy of the cut-up technique.  Also, it features the cut-up technique being used by characters within the story.  "The Ticket That Exploded" lays the groundwork for Burroughs' ideas of social revolution through technology, which he would later detail in his book-length essay "The Electronic Revolution".

Julian Burnside: Julian William Kennedy Burnside AO QC (born 9 June 1949) is an Australian barrister, human rights and refugee advocate, and author.  He practises principally in commercial litigation, trade practices and administrative law.  He is known for his staunch opposition to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and has provided legal counsel in a wide variety of high-profile cases.

A Splendid Exchange: A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped The World (London: Atlantic Books, 2008) is a book by American author William Bernstein.

Supporting paragraphs: William Kennedy (author) S. M. Stirling
Answer: alternate history novels