Question: Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam is a non-fiction work written by a writer born in which year ?

Context articles: Life with Billy (book)
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
A New Era of Thought
1948: A History of the First Arab–Israeli War
Mark Bowden
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Bashir al-Najafi
Militant Islam Reaches America
Guests of the Ayatollah
George Michael (professor)

Life with Billy is a book written by Brian Vallée published in 1986.
 This non-fiction work publicized Jane Hurshman's life and her abusive marriage to Billy Stafford.
 It is the first work written by Vallée.
 "Life with Billy" brought issues of domestic violence to the forefront.
 The book was adapted into a Canadian television movie in 1994.
 A sequel, "Life After Billy", also written by Vallée continues to explore the life of Jane Hurshman and the impacts of domestic abuse.
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia is a 2002 non-fiction book written by Ahmed Rashid.
A New Era of Thought is a non-fiction work written by Charles Howard Hinton, was published in 1888 and reprinted in 1900 by Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd., London.
 "A New Era of Thought" is about the fourth dimension and its implications on human thinking.
 It influenced the work of P.D. Ouspensky, particularly his book "Tertium Organum" where it is frequently quoted, "Scientific American" writer Martin Gardner, who mentioned this book in some of his articles, and influenced Rudy Rucker's "The Fourth Dimension".
 It is prefaced by Alicia Boole and H. John Falk.
 "A New Era of Thought" is inspired by Plato's allegory of the cave and is influenced by the works of Immanuel Kant, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Nikolai Lobachevsky.
 The book has xvi and 230 pages.
1948: A History of the First Arab–Israeli War is a non-fiction work written by Israeli historian Benny Morris.
 It was published by Yale University Press in 2008.
 The author is otherwise known for multiple other books such as "Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem" and "Righteous Victims", being a member of the group called the 'new historians' and the individual who most popularized the term.
Mark Robert Bowden (born July 17, 1951) is an American writer and author.
 He is a National Correspondent for The Atlantic and a contributing editor at "Vanity Fair".
 Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he is a 1973 graduate of Loyola University Maryland.
 While at Loyola, he was inspired to embark on a journalistic career by reading Tom Wolfe's book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test".
 In 2010, in his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the National Book Awards, Wolfe called Bowden one of the two "writers to watch" (along with Michael Lewis).
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS is a 2015 non-fiction book by the American journalist Joby Warrick.
 The book traces the rise and spread of militant Islam behind the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
 It won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Basheer Hussain Najafi (Arabic: آية الله بشير النجفي‎ ‎ ) (born 1942) is one of the five Grand Ayatollahs in Iraq.
 He was born in Jalandhar, a city in then British India.
 After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, his family moved to Pakistan and settled in the city of Gujranwala, Punjab.
 In Gujranwala he had his initial education in religion.
 He was then able to move to Iraq for studies in the early 1960s.
 He is one of many individuals from South Asia and one of the few Pakistanis to have ever been elevated to the highest rank of Grand Ayatollah in Shia Islam.
 He was one year senior to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.
 Al Najafi could be a possible successor to Ali al-Sistani, who has undergone two heart bypass surgeries in London in less than five years, upon the latter's death.
Militant Islam Reaches America is a book written by historian Daniel Pipes, published in 2002.
 It focuses on Islamic fundamentalism and Islamism, reflecting Pipes' view that, as he said in 1995, "Unnoticed by most Westerners, war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States."
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam is a non-fiction work written by Mark Bowden.
George J. Michael (born January 30, 1961) is an American associate professor at the criminal justice faculty of Westfield State University in Massachusetts, and previously served as associate professor of nuclear counterproliferation and deterrence theory at the Air War College and as associate professor of political science and administration of justice at The University of Virginia's College at Wise.
 He studies right-wing extremism, including the relationship between militant Islam and the far right, and is the author of "Confronting Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism in the USA" (2003), "The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right" (2006), "Willis Carto and the American Far Right" (2008), and "Theology of Hate: A History of the World Church of the Creator" (2009).