Who was first, Lewis Mumford or Kazuo Ishiguro?
Lewis Mumford
Title: Kazuo Ishiguro
Passage: Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL (Japanese: カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄 ; born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer.  He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five.  Ishiguro obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980.
Title: When We Were Orphans
Passage: When We Were Orphans is the fifth novel by the British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 2000.  It is loosely categorised as a detective novel.  "When We Were Orphans" was shortlisted for the 2000 Man Booker Prize, though it is considered one of Ishiguro's weakest works, with Ishiguro himself saying "It's not my best book".
Title: Breakfast on the Morning Tram
Passage: Breakfast on the Morning Tram is an album by American jazz singer Stacey Kent that was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2009.  It was her first album for Blue Note Records.  The album features four songs with lyrics written by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.
Title: Technics and Civilization
Passage: Technics and Civilization is a 1934 book by American philosopher and historian of technology Lewis Mumford.  The book presents the history of technology and its role in shaping and being shaped by civilizations.  According to Mumford, modern technology has its roots in the Middle Ages rather than in the Industrial Revolution.  It is the moral, economic, and political choices we make, not the machines we use, Mumford argues, that have produced a capitalist industrialized machine-oriented economy, whose imperfect fruits serve the majority so imperfectly.
Title: The Myth of the Machine
Passage: The Myth of the Machine is a two-volume book taking an in-depth look at the forces that have shaped modern technology since prehistoric times.  The first volume, "Technics and Human Development", was published in 1967, followed by the second volume, "The Pentagon of Power", in 1970.  The author, Lewis Mumford, shows the parallel developments between human tools and social organization mainly through language and rituals.  It is considered a synthesis of many theories Mumford developed throughout his prolific writing career.  Volume 2 was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
Title: Never Let Me Go (novel)
Passage: Never Let Me Go is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro.  It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize (an award Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for "The Remains of the Day"), for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. " Time" magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".  It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006.  A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010; a Japanese television drama aired in 2016.
Title: Lewis Mumford
Passage: Lewis Mumford, KBE (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic.  Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer.  Mumford was influenced by the work of Scottish theorist Sir Patrick Geddes and worked closely with his associate the British sociologist Victor Branford.
Title: The Unconsoled
Passage: The Unconsoled is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, first published in 1995 by Faber and Faber, and winner of the Cheltenham Prize that year.
Title: Nocturnes (short story collection)
Passage: Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall is a 2009 collection of short fiction by Kazuo Ishiguro.  After six novels, it is Ishiguro first collection of short stories, though described by the publisher as a "story cycle".  As the subtitle suggests, each of the five stories focuses on music and musicians, and the close of day.  The hardback was published by Faber and Faber in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2009 and in the United States by Knopf in September 2009.
Title: A Pale View of Hills
Passage: A Pale View of Hills (1982) is the first novel by author Kazuo Ishiguro.  It won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.  He received a £1000 advance from publishers Faber and Faber for the novel after a meeting with Robert McCrum, the fiction editor.
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