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).
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.