Did both Stephen Vincent Benét and Joanne Harris hail from the same country?
Stephen Vincent Benét Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War "John Brown's Body" (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936) and "By the Waters of Babylon" (1937). In 2009, The Library of America selected Benét’s story "The King of the Cats" (1929) for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of "American Fantastic Tales" edited by Peter Straub.
Stephen Ben Cox Stephen Ben Cox (born 1950) is an English artist (painter and sculptor), gardener, and author/historian. He was born and brought up in a village in Gloucestershire England, and rural themes and landscape came to dominate all aspects of his life. From 1968-1972 he studied art at the University of Reading (under Terry Frost, Claude Rogers, Rita Donagh, amongst others)to obtain his B.A. degree. In 1973-74 he was one of three British Council post-graduate scholars to Romania 1973-74 living and researching in Bucharest (during the Cold War) but travelling all over the country, especially Transylvania. This was during the Ceauşescu period of Communist rule. On returning to England he taught in British schools and then did post-graduate study at Reading University to obtain his teaching qualification PGCE (Post-Graduate Certificate in Education), then became an art teacher, interior designer/decorator and practising professional and exhibiting artist for many years.