Query: 1960s Irish novels about writers
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
An Answer from Limbo
The Third Policeman
Evidence from documents: An Answer from Limbo: '''''An Answer from Limbo''''' is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore, published in October 1962. It was written between November 1960 and early 1962, when Moore was living in New York.
The central character in the book is Brendan Tierney, a young Irish writer living in New York City with his American wife and their two children.
The Third Policeman: '''''The Third Policeman''''' is a novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It was written between 1939 and 1940, but after it initially failed to find a publisher, the author withdrew the manuscript from circulation and claimed he had lost it. The book remained unpublished at the time of his death in 1966. It was published by MacGibbon & Kee in 1967.