Question: What novel did the American short story writer who also wrote Losing Battles wrote 
Context: Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South.  Her novel "The Optimist's Daughter" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.  Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards including the Order of the South.  She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America.  Her house in Jackson, Mississippi has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum. Viña Delmar (January 29, 1903 – January 19, 1990) was an American short story writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who worked from the 1920s to the 1970s.  She rose to fame in the late 1920s with the publication of her risqué novel, "Bad Girl", which became a bestseller in 1928.  Delmar also wrote the screenplay to the screwball comedy, "The Awful Truth", for which she received an Academy Award nomination in 1937. Rebecca Makkai (born April 20, 1978) is an American novelist and short-story writer.  Her first novel, "The Borrower", was released in June 2011.  It was a "Booklist" Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an "O Magazine" selection, and one of "Chicago Magazine's" choices for best fiction of 2011.  It was translated into seven languages.  Her short stories have been anthologized in "The Best American Short Stories" 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and as well as in ″The Best American Nonrequired Reading″" 2009 and 2016; she received a 2017 Pushcart Prize and a 2014 NEA fellowship.  Her fiction has also appeared in "Ploughshares", "Tin House", "The Threepenny Review", "New England Review", and "Shenandoah".  Her nonfiction has appeared in "Harpers" and on Salon.com and the "New Yorker" website.  Makkai's stories have also been featured on Public Radio International's "Selected Shorts" and "This American Life."  Her second novel, "The Hundred-Year House", is set in the Northern suburbs of Chicago, and was published by Viking/Penguin in July 2014, having received starred reviews in "Booklist", "Publishers Weekly" and "Library Journal".  It won the 2015 Novel of the Year award from the Chicago Writers Association and was named a best book of 2014 by BookPage.  Her short story collection, "Music for Wartime", was published by Viking in June 2015.  A starred and featured review in "Publishers Weekly" said, "Though these stories alternate in time between WWII and the present day, they all are set, as described in the story “Exposition,” within “the borders of the human heart”—a terrain that their author maps uncommonly well.”  "The Kansas City Star" wrote that "if any short story writer can be considered a rock star of the genre, it's Rebecca Makkai." Shun Medoruma 目取真俊 (born 1960) is, along with Ōshiro Tatsuhiro, Sakiyama Tami, and Matayoshi Eiki, one of the most important contemporary writers from Okinawa, Japan.  Early in his career he won the 11th Ryukyu Shimpō Short Story Prize in 1983 for "Taiwan Woman: Record of a Fish Shoal" ("Gyogunki"), translated by Shi-Lin Loh in "Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa", and the New Okinawan Literature Prize in 1986 for "Walking the Street Named Peace Boulevard" ("Heiwa doori to nazukerareta machi o aruite").  He was awarded the 27th Kyushu Arts Festival Literary Prize and the 117th Akutagawa Prize in 1997 for his short story "A Drop of Water" ("Suiteki").  (Also translated as "Droplets" by Michael Molasky, appearing in the collection of translated stories and poems from Japanese into English titled "Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese literature from Okinawa".)  In 2000 his short story "Mabuigumi" ("Spirit Stuffing," 1998) won the prestigious Kawabata Yasunari and Kiyama Shōhei literary prizes.  Medoruma also wrote the screenplay for the film "Fūon:The Crying Wind", which received the Montreal Film Festival Innovation Prize in 2004, and published a novel based on the screenplay the same year.  His critically acclaimed novel "In the Woods of Memory" (Me no oku no mori, 2009, Tr.  Takuma Sminkey, 2017) is the first full-length novel by an Okinawan writer to be translated and published in English. Losing Battles is the last novel written by Eudora Welty.  It was released on April 13, 1970.  The novel's setting is two days—a Sunday and Monday morning—in a 1930s farm in Mississippi.  "Losing Battles" was her first novel to make the best seller lists, to the surprise of Welty. Nathan Englander (born 1970) is an American short story writer and novelist.  His debut short story collection, "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges," was published by Alfred A. Knopf, in 1999.  His second collection, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank", won the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (January 11, 1923 – April 28, 1998) was an American short story writer and scriptwriter.  He wrote the 1953 story "It's a Good Life" which was the basis for a 1961 episode of "The Twilight Zone" and which was included in "" (1983).  He also wrote four episodes for the "" series: "", "Day of the Dove", "Requiem for Methuselah", and "By Any Other Name".  With Otto Klement, he co-wrote the story upon which the sci-fi movie "Fantastic Voyage" (1966), television series, and novel by Isaac Asimov were based.  Bixby's final work was the screenplay for the 2007 sci-fi film "The Man From Earth". Mark Richard is an American short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, and poet.  He is the author of two award-winning short story collections, "The Ice at the Bottom of the World" and "Charity," a bestselling novel, "Fishboy", and "House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home". Glimmer Train is an American short story literary journal.  It is published quarterly, accepting works primarily from emerging writers.  Stories published in "Glimmer Train" have been listed in "The Best American Short Stories", as well as appearing in recent editions of the "Pushcart Prize", "The PEN/O.  Henry Prize Stories", and anthologies for "New Stories from the Midwest", "New Stories from the South", and "Best American Short Stories".  The journal holds 12 short story fiction contests a year, paying out over $50,000 on an annual basis. Elizabeth Searle is an American novelist, short story writer and playwright.  She has a new novel forthcoming in 2016 and a NYC festival production of her rock opera in 2015.  Her works have included the novel "A Four Sided Bed" and the short story collections "My Body to You" and "Celebrities in Disgrace".  Her most recent novel "Girl Held in Home" was published in 2011 by New Rivers Press.  She wrote the libretto for "Tonya and Nancy:The Opera" which was produced in 2006 and 2010 and 2014.  She also wrote the libretto for the full length musical, "Tonya and Nancy: The Rock Opera" which is being produced in NYC as an official Full Production show at the New York Musical Festival (NYMF) in July, 2015.  The show premiered in February 2008.  A full production was presented in Boston in 2011.  A new 'rock concert' production was performed in sold-out club dates in Hollywood in February 2014.  Searle's theater works have drawn national media attention.
Answer: American South