What country are novelists Jane Smiley and Melinda Haynes from?
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.
Alex Hammond (author) Alex Hammond (born December 25, 1975 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is an Australian crime fiction writer.