What country are novelists Jane Smiley and Melinda Haynes from?
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Jane Smiley Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel "A Thousand Acres" (1991).
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Melinda Haynes Melinda Haynes (born 1955) is an American novelist. She grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. For much of her adult life she was a painter. In 1999, she wrote her first published novel, "Mother of Pearl", while living in a mobile home in Grand Bay, Alabama. Melinda Haynes currently resides in Mobile, Alabama with her husband, Ray. Her writing is intimately connected with the Mississippi of the 1950s and the 1960s.
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Greer Honeywill Greer Honeywill (born 1945 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian conceptual artist. Her work covers sculptural conventions, autobiography and critical thinking.
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Ursula Holden Ursula Holden (born 8 August 1921) is an English novelist, author of thirteen novels often inspired by her time spent in Ireland. Her first novel, "Endless Race", was published when she was 54.
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Sara Douglass Sara Warneke (2 June 1957 – 27 September 2011), better known by her pen name Sara Douglass, was an Australian fantasy writer who lived in Hobart, Tasmania.
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Jane Casey Jane Casey is an Irish-born author of crime novels. She was born in Dublin in 1977 and grew up in Castleknock, 8 km (5 mi) west of the centre of Dublin. She studied English at Jesus College, Oxford.
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Helen Simpson (author) Helen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1957 in Bristol, in the West of England, and grew up first in Wealdstone then in a suburb of Croydon where she went to a girls' school. Her mother was a primary-school teacher and her father was a naval architect who later taught. The first from her family to go to university, she read English at Oxford where she wrote a thesis on Restoration farce. She worked at "Vogue" for five years before her success in writing short stories meant she could afford to leave and concentrate full-time on her writing. Her first collection, "Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories", 1990, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and was followed by a second collection, "Dear George", in 1995. "Hey Yeah Right Get A Life", 2000, a series of interlinked stories, won the Hawthornden Prize, and was renamed "Getting a Life" for its US publication. She was awarded the E.M. Forster Award in 2002 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent story collections are: "Constitutional" (2005), renamed "In the Driver's Seat" for its US publication; "In-Flight Entertainment" (2010); and "Cockfosters" (2015). "A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories" was published in 2012.
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Lauren St John Lauren St John is an author born in Rhodesia, in modern-day Zimbabwe. She is best known for her children's novels including "The White Giraffe" and "Dead Man's Cove" which won her a Blue Peter Book Award in 2011.
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Elizabeth O'Conner Elizabeth O'Conner (1913 – 6 May 2000), born under the name Barbara Lowe, was an Australian novelist. Elizabeth O'Conner was born in Dunedoo in New South Wales. After a childhood spent in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, she studied art in Adelaide and Sydney, before teaching at a Brisbane girls' boarding school.
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Henrietta Camilla Jenkin Henrietta Jenkin or Henrietta Jackson; Henrietta Camilla Jenkin; Henrietta Camilla Jackson (1807–1885) was an English novelist.
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Mary Saran Maria Martha Saran (13 July 1897 – 16 February 1976), known as Mary Saran, was a journalist and author. In 1933 she emigrated from her native Germany to England, where she took British nationality and where she lived for the rest of her life.
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Sofie Laguna Sofie Laguna (born 1968) is an Australian novelist. She was born in Sydney and studied law before deciding that being a lawyer was not for her. She has worked as an actor and is now a writer and playwright. She now lives in Melbourne.
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Jane Thynne Jane Thynne (born 5 April 1961) is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster.
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Sarah Bakewell Sarah Bakewell (born 1962/63) is a British author of non-fiction. She currently lives in London.
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Kathryn Lance Kathryn Lance (born 1943 — El Paso, Texas) is an American writer in many fields of fiction and non-fiction under her own name and various pseudonyms, as well as being the ghostwriter for numerous books purportedly written by other people. She has written dozens of young adult novels in the science-fiction, mystery, and horror genres, many of them in series as by Lynn Beach. She has also written magazine articles and stories for both adults and children. Her topics include diet, sports, fitness, sexuality, and biotechnology, in both corporate publications and such national periodicals as "Family Circle", "Parade", "Self", "Town & Country", "Ladies Home Journal", and "Writer's Digest".
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H. B. Marriott Watson Henry Brereton Marriott Watson (20 December 1863 – 30 October 1921), known by his pen name H.B. Marriott Watson, was an Australian-born British novelist, journalist, playwright, and short-story writer. He worked for the "St. James Gazette", was assistant editor of the "Black and White" and "Pall Mall Gazette", and staff member on W.E. Henley's "National Observer".
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Božin Pavlovski Božin Pavlovski (Macedonian: "Божин Павловски") is a Macedonian, Australian, and known European novelist translated in more than twenty languages, who has lived in Australia for the past three decades, is in the prime of his creative life. He is a novelist–mediator between two cultures whose novels interpret the binary logic by which his characters are both “here” and in the country in which they were born or originate from. In his latest novel 'Gardener, Desert’ (2015) Pavlovski transmits through a Romanesque lens his vision of the transnational, cosmopolitan, multilingual and hybrid map of the world.
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Alex Hammond (author) Alex Hammond (born December 25, 1975 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is an Australian crime fiction writer.
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Susan Wicks Susan Wicks (born 1947 Kent, England) is a British poet, and novelist.
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Mary Watson (author) Mary Watson (born 31 May 1975) is a South African author.
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Jane Jeong Trenka Jane Jeong Trenka is an activist and an award-winning writer.
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Elizabeth Harrower (writer) Elizabeth Harrower (born 1928 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian novelist and short story writer.