Are either Frank Herbert and Paul Auster Australian?
Frank Herbert Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel "Dune" and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer.
John Tranter John Ernest Tranter (born 29 April 1943) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has published more than twenty books of poetry; devising, with Jan Garrett, the long running ABC radio program "Books and Writing"; and founding in 1997 the internet quarterly literary magazine "Jacket" which he published and edited until 2010, when he gave it to the University of Pennsylvania.