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.
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.