In the Name of the Father is the short first novel by award winning Italian American writer Tony Ardizzone.
 First published in 1978, the novel is a minimalist work and is the coming-of-age story of Tonto Schwartz.
 The novel placed Ardizzone amongst the ranks of minimalist writers like Raymond Carver and Ann Beattie, though his later work was not minimalist.
Founded in 1996, Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art is published three times a year by the Georgia State University, Department of English and co-edited by Megan Sexton and David Bottoms.
 Each issue features poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews.
 "Five Points" is ranked in the top ten magazines in the nation by Every Writer’s Resource.
 Works first published in "Five Points" have been selected to appear in "Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, O’Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Best of the Small Presses, New Stories from the South, Utne Reader, Harper’s, and Poetry Daily".
 Previous contributors include Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Frederick Busch, Edward Hirsch, Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, Philip Levine, W.S. Merwin, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Christine Stewart, Martin Walls, Charles Wright and many others.
Elizabeth Ann Beattie is a former Australian politician.
 She was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2014.
 She represented the electorate of Yuroke from 2002; she previously represented the abolished electorate of Tullamarine.
 She was the Parliamentary Secretary assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs and Veteran Affairs in the Brumby Labor Government.
The Best American Short Stories 1987, a volume in "The Best American Short Stories series", was edited by guest editor Ann Beattie with Shannon Ravenel.
Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer.
 She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form.
 Her work has been compared to that of Alice Adams, J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, and John Updike.
 She holds an undergraduate degree from American University and a master's degree from the University of Connecticut.
Chilly Scenes of Winter is Ann Beattie's first novel, published by Doubleday in September, 1976.
 The marketing copy from the paperback edition declared, "This is the story of a love-smitten Charles; his friend Sam, the Phi Beta Kappa and former coat salesman; and Charles' mother, who spends a lot of time in the bathtub feeling depressed."
Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant", his ten-novel fantasy series.
 His work is characterized by psychological complexity, conceptual abstractness, moral bleakness, and the use of an arcane vocabulary, and has attracted critical praise for its "imagination, vivid characterizations, and fast pace".
 He earned his bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster and a Master's degree from Kent State University.
 He currently resides in New Mexico.
"Snow" (1986) is a neorealist short story by Ann Beattie.
Folio is a literary magazine founded in 1984 and based at American University in Washington, D.C. It publishes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction twice each year.
 "Folio" is also known for interviews with prominent writers, most recently Ann Beattie, Alice Fulton, Leslie Pietrzyk, Gregory Orr, and Adam Haslett.
 Work that has appeared in "Folio" was short-listed for the Pushcart Prize multiple time in the 1980s.
The Last Dark is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen R. Donaldson, the final book of "The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant", ending the story that Donaldson began in 1977 with "Lord Foul's Bane".
 It was published on October 15, 2013.

Question: Do Ann Beattie and Stephen R. Donaldson both hold a master's degree from the same university?
Answer: no