What country are novelists Jane Smiley and Melinda Haynes from?
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).
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".