question: Who was born first, Barbara Cartland or John Banville?
answer: Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland
context: Title: List of prolific writers
  Passage: Some writers have had prolific careers with hundreds of their works being published.  While some best-selling authors have written a small number of books that have sold millions of copies, others have had lengthy careers and maintained a high level of output year after year.  Dame Agatha Christie, the most-published novelist in history, is estimated to have sold 4 billion books, having written 69 novels and 19 plays.  Her works were published between 1920 and 1976, equating to around three publications every two years.  Dame Barbara Cartland has also sold millions of copies of her books but wrote many more than Christie.  She spent 80 years as a novelist with 722 books published, averaging one book released every 40 days of her career.  While Cartland wrote a significant number of full-length novels, other authors have been published many more times but have specialised in short stories.  Spanish author Corín Tellado wrote over 5,000 novellas, selling 400 million copies of her books.
  Title: Barbara Cartland
  Passage: Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland DBE CStJ (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000) was an English author of romance novels, one of the best-selling authors as well as one of the most prolific and commercially successful worldwide of the twentieth century.  Her 723 novels were translated into 38 languages and she continues to be referenced in the "Guinness World Records" for the most novels published in a single year in 1976.  As Barbara Cartland she is known for her numerous romantic novels but she also wrote under her married name of Barbara McCorquodale and briefly under the pseudonym of Marcus Belfry.  She wrote more than 700 books, as well as plays, music, verse, drama, magazine articles and operetta, and was a prominent philanthropist.  She reportedly sold more than 750 million copies.  Other sources estimate her book sales at more than two billion copies.  She specialised in 19th-century Victorian era pure romance.  Her novels all featured portrait-style artwork, particularly the cover art, usually designed by Frances Marshall.
  Title: Romantic Novelists' Association
  Passage: The Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) is an association of romantic fiction writers in the United Kingdom.  Founded in 1960, mainly through the efforts of Denise Robins (first president), Barbara Cartland (first vice-president), Vivian Stuart (first elected chairman), and other authors like Elizabeth Goudge, Netta Muskett, Catherine Cookson, Rosamunde Pilcher and Lucilla Andrews.
  Title: In Love with Barbara
  Passage: In Love with Barbara is a 2008 drama television film, inspired by the life of the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland, which tells the story of what made her the Queen of Romance.  It was written by Jacquetta May and shown on BBC Four at 9:00pm, on Sunday 26 October 2008.
  Title: Duel of Hearts
  Passage: Duel of Hearts is a 1991 romantic television film directed by John Hough.  Terence Feely penned the screenplay, based on the Barbara Cartland novel, "A Duel of Hearts".  The film stars Alison Doody, Michael York, Geraldine Chaplin and Benedict Taylor.
  Title: John Banville
  Passage: William John Banville (born 8 December 1945), who writes as John Banville and sometimes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter.  Recognised for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators, Banville is considered to be "one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today."  He has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov."
  Title: Ghosts (Banville novel)
  Passage: Ghosts is a novel by Irish writer John Banville.  Published in 1993, it was his first novel since "The Book of Evidence" (1989), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.  The second in what Banville described as a "triptych", to make "an investigation of the way in which the imagination works."  This novel features many of the same characters and relates to events of the previous novel.
  Title: Ronald Cartland
  Passage: Major John Ronald Hamilton Cartland (3 January 1907 — 30 May 1940) was a British Conservative Party politician.  He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for King's Norton in Birmingham from 1935 until he was killed in action in 1940, aged 33.  He was the brother of prolific romance author, Barbara Cartland.
  Title: The Newton Letter
  Passage: The Newton Letter is a novel by John Banville, first published in 1982.  It was published in the United States in 1987.  Drawing comparisons with Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier" and John Hawkes's "The Blood Oranges" for their use of the unreliable narrator, "The Newton Letter" was described there as Banville's "most impressive work to date".
citations: John Banville Barbara Cartland