Question: When was the writer of "The Back of the Turtle" born? 

Context articles: Nick Toczek
Chris Sheridan (writer)
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
The Back of the Turtle
Zelda Lockhart
Arnold Jacoby
Louise Erdrich
Thomas King (novelist)
Paulette Bourgeois
Jean Back

Nick Toczek (born 20 September 1950; Shipley, England) is a British writer and performer working variously as poet, journalist, magician, vocalist, lyricist and radio broadcaster.
 He was raised in Bradford and then took a degree in Industrial Metallurgy at Birmingham University (1968–71) where he began reading and publishing his poetry.
 Staying on in Moseley, Birmingham, until 1977, he founded his poetry magazine "The Little Word Machine", had several books and pamphlets published by small presses, co-founded Moseley Community Arts Festival, and toured with his music and poetry troupe, The Stereo Graffiti Show.
 Moving back to Bradford in 1977, he co-founded the seminal music fanzine "The Wool City Rocker" and formed the band Ulterior Motives, in which he was lyricist and lead vocalist.
 Continuing to tour as a poet and to publish his writings, he also recorded songs with a variety of bands.
 During the early 1980s, he ran a series of weekly punk and indie gigs.
 Throughout the late '80s and early '90s, he ran weekly alternative cabaret clubs, usually co-organising these with fellow performer Wild Willi Beckett.
 Since the mid-'90s, his collections of children's poetry (first with Macmillan and later with Hodder, LDA, Caboodle, etc.) have seen him become a best-selling children's writer.
 Also, since 1997, he has been regularly collaborating with the composer Malcolm Singer, starting with their Dragons Cantata.
 By 2011, Toczek had worked as a visiting writer in thousands of schools, visiting dozens of countries worldwide in the course of this work.
 He is also a professional close-up magician, a skilled puppeteer, an authority on far-right neo-Nazi and racist groups, a prolific print journalist and an experienced broadcaster.
Christopher "Chris" Sheridan (born September 19, 1967) is an American television writer, producer, and occasional voice actor.
 Born in the Philippines, Sheridan grew up in New Hampshire.
 He attended Gilford High School, where he decided that he wanted to become a writer.
 After graduating from Union College, he moved back to his home, where he worked at several short-term jobs before relocating to California to start his career.
 His first job came in 1992 when he was hired as a writer's assistant for the Fox sitcom "Shaky Ground".
 Following that, he was hired as an assistant on "Living Single", a Fox sitcom, where he was eventually promoted to writer.
 He stayed with the show until its cancellation in 1998.
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga (March 23, 1814 – February 1, 1873) was a 19th-century Cuban-born Spanish writer.
 Born in Puerto Príncipe, she lived in Cuba until she was 22.
 Her family moved to Spain in 1836, and she lived there until 1856, when she moved back to Cuba with her new husband.
 He died in 1863, after which she moved back to Spain.
 She died in Madrid in 1873 from diabetes at the age of 59.
The Back of the Turtle is a novel by Thomas King.
 Published by HarperCollins in 2014, the novel won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.
Zelda Lockhart is a contemporary African-American writer, speaker, teacher and is the director of LaVenson Press Studios.
 She is the author of three novels: "Fifth Born" (2003), "Cold Running Creek" (2006), and "Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle" (2010).
 Her first novel was published to critical acclaim and was a finalist for an award—for a debut novel—from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Foundation.
 Her novels emphasize the struggles, sexual trauma, and triumphs of African and Native American women historically and contemporarily.
 In her position as director of LaVenson Press Studios Lockhart seeks to create a space where women can "self-define through writing and publishing."
Jacoby was born and grew up in Brooklyn, where his aunt, her husband and two children also lived.
 His parents had emigrated to America, but the family moved back to Larvik when Jacoby's grandfather Georg Jacoby died and his nursery on "Dronningensgate" (Queen Street) stood empty without someone to take care of it.
 While still a young man, Jacoby moved to Oslo, where he made a living writing and producing advertising and illustrations.
 During the Second World War he moved to Ula, and later back to Larvik.
 In 1961, he bought a 800-year-old house in Andora, Italy, where he spent extensive time and worked.
 He was the father of Marianne Rosenblad Jacoby Steina, a translator, proofreader, and publishing editor at Fogdal Publishing, and editor at Bonnier A/S, the singer and writer Louis Jacoby, and the illustrator and graphic designer Tom Rosenblad Jacoby.
 He was married to Ellen née Dahl (1918–2012).
 Arnold Jacoby died in Larvik.
Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings.
 She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a band of the Anishinaabe (also known as Ojibwe and Chippewa).
Thomas King, CM (born April 24, 1943) is an American-Canadian writer and broadcast presenter who most often writes about North America's First Nations.
Paulette Bourgeois, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born July 20, 1951) is a Canadian writer best known for creating Franklin the Turtle, the character who appears in picture books illustrated by Toronto native Brenda Clark.
 The books have sold more than 60 million copies around the world and have been translated into 38 languages.
 An animated television series, merchandise, DVDs and full-feature movies are based on the character.
Jean Back (born 1953) is a Luxembourg writer, photographer and civil servant.
 He was born in Dudelange and studied in Esch-Alzette.
 A career civil servant, Back has met with success in creative pursuits such as photography and creative writing.
 His novel "Amateur" won the EU Prize for Literature.