Question: Are Francis Ponge and Roger Angell both considered writers?

Context articles: Beverley Bie Brahic
Le parti pris des choses
J. G. Taylor Spink Award
Roger Angell
Peter Schwed
Peter Arno
Jean-Daniel Pollet
Francis Ponge
Maurice K. Smith
Season Ticket: A Baseball Companion

Beverley Bie Brahic is a Canadian poet and translator who lives in Paris, France and the San Francisco Bay Area.
 Her poetry collection, "White Sheets", was a finalist for the Forward Prize  and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
 Her translations include "Guillaume Apollinaire:The Little Auto", winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize; "Francis Ponge: Unfinished Ode to Mud", a finalist for the Popescu Prize for Poetry in Translation; "Yves Bonnefoy: The Present Hour"; and books by Hélène Cixous, including "Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint", "Manhattan", and "Hyperdream," Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva.
Le parti pris des choses is a collection of 32 short to medium-length prose poems by French poet and essayist Francis Ponge first published in 1942 (see 1942 in poetry).
 The title is often translated into English as The Voice of Things, The Way Things Are, or The Nature of Things (perhaps to echo Lucretius, though the book's philosophical underpinnings are more often associated with phenomenology).
The J. G. Taylor Spink Award is the highest award given by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).
 The award was instituted in and named after J. G. Taylor Spink, publisher of "The Sporting News" from 1914 to 1962, who was also the first recipient.
 The recipient does not have to be a member of the BBWAA, but every recipient from the award's inception through had been a BBWAA member at some time; the first recipient to have never have been a member was recipient Roger Angell.
Roger Angell (born September 19, 1920) is an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball.
 He has been a regular contributor to "The New Yorker" and was its chief fiction editor for many years.
 He has written numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, and criticism, and for many years wrote an annual Christmas poem for "The New Yorker".
Peter Schwed (1911-2003) was an American editor and the editorial chairman and a trade book publisher for Simon & Schuster.
 Among the authors he edited were P.G. Wodehouse, Irving Wallace, Harold Robbins, David McCullough and Cornelius Ryan.
 Schwed also authored or contributed to more than a dozen books.
 Schwed specialized in sports publications and was either an editor or ghostwriter for such sports figures as Jack Nicklaus, Rod Laver, Bill Tilden, Chris Evert, Bjorn Borg, Roger Angell and Ted Williams.
 He was the co-author of golfer Nancy Lopez's "The Education of a Woman Golfer".
Peter Arno (January 8, 1904 – February 22, 1968) was a U.S. cartoonist.
 He contributed cartoons and 99 covers to "The New Yorker" from 1925, the magazine's first year, until 1968, the year of his death.
 In 2015, "New Yorker" contributor Roger Angell described him as "the magazine's first genius".
Jean-Daniel Pollet (] ; 1936–2004) was a French film director and screenwriter who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s.
 He was associated with two approaches to filmmaking: comedies which blended burlesque and melancholic elements, and poetic films based on texts by writers such as the French poet Francis Ponge.
Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge (] ; 27 March 1899 – 6 August 1988) was a French essayist and poet.
 Influenced by surrealism, he developed a form of prose poem, minutely examining everyday objects.
 He was the third recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1974.
Maurice Smith (September 1926, Hamilton, New Zealand) is a New Zealand born architect and architectural educator.
 Smith's work and teaching builds upon the idea of creating "habitable three-dimensional fields" as a working method for his projects.
 His 'field theory' has parallels to the work of Charles Olson, William Carlos Williams, and Francis Ponge in poetry, and of György Kepes and Paul Klee in the visual arts.
 Smith's published works include the offices of Firth Concrete, Hastings, New Zealand, 1958 (demolished), Indian_Hill_House in Groton, Massachusetts (1962–63), and Blackman House in Manchester-by-the-Sea,_Massachusetts (1992-93).
 He left New Zealand to study at MIT in the USA on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1952.
 During this time Smith studied under, and worked for, various MIT faculty and visiting faculty, including Carl Koch, Serge Chermayeff, Richard Buckminster Fuller, and György Kepes.
Season Ticket: A Baseball Companion is a 1988 book written by Roger Angell, whose previous works include "Five Seasons", "Late Innings", and the New York Times best-seller, "The Summer Game".
 Angell is considered one of the country's premier baseball writers.