Claim: Winter's Tale is by an American.
Evidence: Winter 's Tale is a 1983 novel by Mark Helprin.
Mark Helprin -LRB- born June 28 , 1947 -RRB- is an American novelist , journalist , conservative commentator , Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy , Fellow of the American Academy in Rome , and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.