question: Who was a novelist John Ashbery or Michael Frayn 
answer: Michael Frayn
context: Title: The Tennis Court Oath (book)
  Passage: The Tennis Court Oath is a 1962 poetry collection by the American writer John Ashbery.  Ashbery lived in Paris when it was published, working as an art critic.  The book received few and negative reviews upon its original publication.
  Title: The Two of Us (play)
  Passage: The Two of Us is a 1970 play by British playwright Michael Frayn.  It consists of four one-act plays for two actors and is Frayn's first published play.
  Title: Jane Hammond
  Passage: Jane R. Hammond (born 1950) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City.  She was influenced by the late composer John Cage.  She collaborated with the poet John Ashbery, making 62 paintings based on titles suggested by Ashbery; she also collaborated with the poet Raphael Rubinstein.
  Title: Where Shall I Wander
  Passage: Where Shall I Wander is a 2005 poetry collection by the American writer John Ashbery.  The title comes from the nursery rhyme "Goosey Goosey Gander".  It is Ashbery's 23rd book of poetry and was published through Ecco Press.  It was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry.
  Title: Pierre Martory
  Passage: Pierre Martory (December 1, 1920 – October 5, 1998) was a French poet whose influence on New York School poets was quiet but profound.  His work was admired by Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, Harry Mathews, and others, and translated extensively by John Ashbery, with whom he shared his life in Paris for nearly a decade.  His work has appeared in many books in both England and the United States, as well as in "The New Yorker" and "Poetry".  Martory’s personal “charm,” the poet Ann Lauterbach once said, “devolved back to the original meaning of ‘spell. ’” However, as Ashbery has noted, “Both the humor and the sadness in his poems are always rendered with an unemphatic clarity that is certainly Mozartian.”
  Title: John Ashbery
  Passage: John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet.  He published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror".  Renowned for its postmodern complexity and opacity, Ashbery's work still proves controversial.  Ashbery stated that he wished his work to be accessible to as many people as possible, and not to be a private dialogue with himself.  At the same time, he once joked that some critics still view him as "a harebrained, homegrown surrealist whose poetry defies even the rules and logic of Surrealism."
  Title: Noises Off
  Passage: Noises Off is a 1982 play by the English playwright Michael Frayn.  The idea for it came in 1970, when Frayn was watching from the wings a performance of "The Two of Us", a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave.  He said, "It was funnier from behind than in front, and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind."  The prototype, a short-lived one-act play called "Exits", was written and performed in 1977.  At the request of his associate, Michael Codron, Frayn expanded this into what would become "Noises Off".  It takes its title from the theatrical stage direction indicating sounds coming from offstage.
  Title: The Skaters
  Passage: "The Skaters" is a 739-line long poem by American postmodern poet John Ashbery (b. 1927).  Written from 1963 and in close to its final state in 1964, it was first published in Ashbery's fifth collection of poems, "Rivers and Mountains" published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
  Title: Chinese Whispers (poetry collection)
  Passage: Chinese Whispers is a 2002 poetry collection by the American writer John Ashbery.  It was Ashbery's 20th collection and consists of 65 individual poems.
  Title: Michael Frayn
  Passage: Michael Frayn, FRSL ( ; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist.  He is best known as the author of the farce "Noises Off" and the dramas "Copenhagen" and "Democracy".  His novels, such as "Towards the End of the Morning", "Headlong" and "Spies", have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction.  He has also written philosophical works, such as "The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe" (2006).
citations: Michael Frayn John Ashbery