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).
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.