The Abstinence Teacher is a 2007 novel by American author Tom Perrotta.
 It tells the story of Ruth Ramsey, a divorced sexual education teacher who lives in suburban New Jersey and comes into conflict with the town's conservative population.
 According to Perrotta, it is "all about sex education and the culture wars." He was inspired to write the novel after reading of the influence of evangelical voters on the 2004 presidential election, stating, "I did feel somewhat inadequate as a novelist, just like I'd missed something huge happening in this country.
 I really did set out to kind of investigate that world."
 The novel also touches on other issues such as homophobia and sexism in the suburban setting.
Peter Rock (born 1967) is an American novelist born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah.
 He is a professor of creative writing at Reed College and lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and daughters.
William Heffernan (born August 22, 1940) is an American novelist born in New Haven, Connecticut.
 Before becoming a novelist, Heffernan was an investigative reporter for the "New York Daily News".
 For that work he was thrice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
 Heffernan left journalism in 1978 after receiving his first book contract for the novel "Broderick".
 He won the Heywood Broun Award twice, received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and has received a number of other local, state and regional honors.
 William Heffernan has received the Edgar Award, is a member of the Authors Guild, The Mystery Writers of America, and was once President of the International Association of Crime Writers.
 The film rights for the "The Dinosaur Club" were sold to Warner Bros in 1997 for $1 million.
Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 – February 22, 1810) was an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period.
 He is generally regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper.
 He is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820.
 Although Brown was not the first American novelist, as some early criticism claimed, the breadth and complexity of his achievement as a writer in multiple genres (novels, short stories, essays and periodical writings of every sort, poetry, historiography, reviews) makes him a crucial figure in US literature and culture of the 1790s and first decade of the 19th century, and a significant public intellectual in the wider Atlantic print culture and public sphere of the era of the French Revolution.
José León Sánchez Alvarado is a Costa Rican novelist born in 1929, best known for his works "Isla de los hombres solos" ("Island of Lonely Men") and "Tenochtitlan".
 He was born in Cucaracho del Río Cuarto, Puntarenas.
 A movie adaptation of his novel, "Isla de los hombres solos" was made and released by a Mexican producer.
Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual is a 2007 novel by Alexander Theroux.
 The plot concerns the relationship between Eugene Eyestones, the writer of an advice column called "The Sexual Intellectual", and his editor's ex-wife, Laura Warholic, whom Eyestones pities more than likes.
 This basic story provides the jumping off point for Theroux's satire of American culture.
Grantchester Grind is a novel written by Tom Sharpe, a British novelist born in 1928 who was educated at Lancing College and then at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Betool Khedairi (born 27 November 1965 in Baghdad, Iraq) is a novelist born to an Iraqi father and Scottish mother.
 She is most known for her debut novel, "A Sky So Close" which has been published in numerous languages such as Arabic, English, Italian, French and Dutch.
 The novel was first published in Lebanon in 1999 and is often used as the subject of literary critique studies in various international universities.
Alexander Louis Theroux (born 1939) is an American novelist and poet whose best known novel is perhaps "Darconville’s Cat" (1981) which was selected by Anthony Burgess’s "Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice" in 1984 and in Larry McCaffery’s "20th Century’s Greatest Hits"
Larry Heinemann (born 1944) is an American novelist born and raised in Chicago.
 His published work—three novels and a memoir—is primarily concerned with the Vietnam War.

Question: The Sexual Intellectual is a 2007 novel by an American novelist born in what year?
Answer: 1939