question: What types of literature did both James McBride and Robert E. Howard compose?
answer: fiction
context: Title: James McBride (writer)
  Passage: James McBride (born September 11, 1957) is an American writer and musician.  He is the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction for his novel "The Good Lord Bird".
  Title: Robert E. Howard
  Passage: Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres.  He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.
  Title: James McBride (pioneer)
  Passage: James McBride (1788–1859) was a prominent pioneer statesman in Butler County, Ohio.  He was Hamilton's first Mayor, and a prominent State Representative associated with the canals, archaeologist who supplied a considerable number of sketches of earthworks for early texts on the Mississippi Valley, Ohio's leading pioneer author and antiquarian, Miami University Secretary and President of the Board of Trustees, Butler County's fifth Sheriff, a surveyor, and an officer of other various entities.  James McBride married the daughter of Judge Lytle, of the Lytle family of the Ohio River Valley, and was through her kinsman with Sen. Homer T. Bone, and Governor of Ohio Andrew L. Harris.  McBride's son in law was Roger N. Stembel, a commander of the Pacific Fleet.
  Title: Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of
  Passage: Robert E. Howard's Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, or simply Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, is a sword and sorcery British pen-and-paper role-playing game set in the world of Conan the Barbarian, the fictional Hyborian Age.  Both the character and the setting were first imagined by American author Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) as of 1932 and until his suicide in 1936.  Howard's original literary work has since spawned a vast franchise of novels, comic books, films, video games, board games, role-playing games, etc.  Following this tradition, "Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of" is the third officially licensed Conan role-playing game.  The two precedent games were "Conan Role-Playing Game" (1985-1988) and "" (2004-2010), although there also had been supplements for independent generic systems, like "GURPS Conan" (1988-1989).
  Title: Legacy of Robert E. Howard
  Passage: Robert E. Howard's legacy extended after his death in 1936.  Howard's most famous character, Conan the Barbarian, has a pop-culture imprint that has been compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.  Howard's critical reputation suffered at first but over the decades works of Howard scholarship have been published.  The first professionally published example of this was L. Sprague de Camp's "Dark Valley Destiny" (1983) which was followed by other works, including Don Herron's "The Dark Barbarian" (1984) and Mark Finn's "" (2006).  Also in 2006, a charity, Robert E. Howard Foundation, was created to promote further scholarship.
  Title: The Color of Water
  Passage: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, is the autobiography and memoir of James McBride first published in 1995; it is also a tribute to his mother, whom he calls Mommy, or Ma.  The chapters alternate between James McBride's descriptions of his early life and first-person accounts of his mother Ruth's life, mostly taking place before her son was born.  McBride depicts the conflicting emotions that he endured as he struggled to discover who he truly was, as his mother narrates the hardships that she had to overcome as a white, Jewish woman who chose to marry a black man in 1942.
  Title: Rip Raps Plantation
  Passage: Rip Raps Plantation, also known as the James McBride Dabbs House, is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina.  It encompasses four contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and two contributing structures.  The house was built in 1858, and is a two-story, frame vernacular Greek Revival dwelling with twin facades.  Each facade features a two-story, full width, pedimented portico supported by six paneled piers.  Also on the property are a log smokehouse (c. 1830), a two-story carriage house (c. 1830), and a barn.  It was the home of James McBride Dabbs, plantation owner, author and leading advocate for social justice and civil rights (1896-1970), and subsequently his son James M. Dabbs, Jr. (1937–2004).
  Title: Valeria (Conan the Barbarian)
  Passage: Valeria is a pirate and adventuress (a member of "The Red Brotherhood" of pirates) in the fictional universe of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian stories.  She appears in Robert E. Howard's Conan novella "Red Nails", serialized in "Weird Tales" 28 1-3 (July, August/September & October 1936).  This was the last Conan story written by Howard, and published posthumously.  The name was also used for Conan's love interest in the 1982 film "Conan the Barbarian".
  Title: R.E. Chisholm Architects
  Passage: R.E. Chisholm Architects, Inc. is a full-service architectural, interior design and urban design firm located in Miami, Florida.  It was founded in 1982 by Robert E. Chisholm, FAIA.  The firm was known as CSR Architects from 1983 through 1989.  In 1989, the firm was incorporated and grew to its current status.  Robert E. Chisholm originally adopted the firm philosophy of maintaining a variety of project types and experience which would develop the thinking and attitude of the firm in a consistent direction of architects in responsible leadership of each project.  Chisholm Architects has designed numerous projects which include offices, restaurants, theaters, schools, university facilities, medical centers, commercial & retail sites, institutional & cultural centers, single and multi-unit residences, rapid transit stations, and aviation facilities.  In 1996 Robert E. Chisholm was named Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, the highest honor attainable in this 150-year-old organization and in 2007, Mr. Chisholm was awarded the State of Florida AIA Silver Medal for Architecture.
  Title: Willie John McBride
  Passage: William James McBride, MBE, better known as Willie John McBride (born 6 June 1940) is a former rugby union footballer who played as a lock for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions.  He played 63 Tests for Ireland including eleven as captain, and toured with the Lions five times — a record that gave him 17 Lions Test caps.  He also captained the most successful ever Lions side, which toured South Africa in 1974.
citations: Robert E. Howard James McBride (writer)