Question: What American novelist and young-adult and children's writer mentioned Middleborough in her short story "Saint Helene"?
Context: John H. Ritter (born October 31, 1951, San Pedro, California) is an American novelist, short story writer, teacher, and lecturer.  He has written six novels and numerous short stories spanning the historical, sports, and sociopolitical genres in the young adult field of literature.  His first novel, "Choosing Up Sides", published in 1998, won the 1999 International Reading Association Children's Book Award for Older Readers and was designated an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults.  "Kirkus Reviews" praised "Choosing Up Sides", which attacked the once-prevalent views of religious fundamentalists toward left-handed children, as, "No ordinary baseball book, this is a rare first novel."  In 2004 Ritter received the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People for his third novel, "The Boy Who Saved Baseball". Elizabeth Inness-Brown is an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and contributing editor at "Boulevard".  She is a Professor of English at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont and lives in South Hero, Vermont—one of three islands comprising Grand Isle County—with her husband and son.  Inness-Brown has published a novel, "Burning Marguerite", as well as two short story collections, titled "Here" and "Satin Palms".  Her stories and essays have appeared in "The New Yorker", "North American Review", "Boulevard", "Glimmer Train", "Madcap Review", and various other journals.  Inness-Brown received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for Writing in 1983 and has done writing residencies at Yaddo and The Millay Colony for the Arts.  In 1982, her short story "Release, Surrender" appeared in Volume VII of the Pushcart Prize. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.  His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations.  Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.  He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works.  Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously.  Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. Ann Hood (born 1956) is an American novelist and short story writer; she has also written nonfiction.  The author of fourteen novels, three memoirs, a short story collection, a ten book series for middle readers and one young adult novel.  Her essays and short stories have appeared in many journals, magazines, and anthologies, including "The Paris Review, Ploughshares,", and "Tin House."  Hood is a regular contributor to The New York Times' Op-Ed page, Home Economics column.  Her most recent work is "The Book That Matters Most" published with W.W. Norton and Company in early 2016. 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." Middleborough High School is a public high school located in Middleborough, Massachusetts, established in 1873.  The school is currently located at 71 East Grove Street.  Middleborough High has an approximate student enrollment of 850 students in grades 9–12.  The school's mascot is known as the "Sachem" and the school colors are black and orange.  Middleborough is mentioned in Alice Hoffman's short story "Saint Helene." Marijane Meaker (born May 27, 1927) is an American novelist and short story writer in several genres using different pen names.  From 1952 to 1969 she wrote twenty mystery and crime novels as Vin Packer, including "Spring Fire", which is credited with launching the genre of lesbian pulp fiction (although few of Packer's books address homosexuality or feature gay characters).  Using her own observations of lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s, she wrote a series of nonfiction books about lesbians under the pen name Ann Aldrich from 1955 to 1972.  In 1972 she switched genres and pen names once more to begin writing for young adults, and became quite successful as M.E. Kerr, producing over 20 novels and winning multiple awards including the American Library Association's lifetime award for young-adult literature, the ALA Margaret Edwards Award.  She was described by "The New York Times Book Review" as "one of the grand masters of young adult fiction."  As Mary James, she has written four books for younger children. John Fante (April 8, 1909 – May 8, 1983) was an Italian-American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.  He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "Ask the Dust" (1939) about the life of a struggling writer, Arturo Bandini, in Depression-era Los Angeles.  It is widely considered the great Los Angeles novel and is one in a series of four novels, published between 1938 and 1985, that are now collectively called "The Bandini Quartet".  A movie of the same name was made in 2006, starring Colin Farrell.  Fante published five novels, one novella, and a short story collection.  Additional works, including two novels, two novellas, and two short story collections, were published posthumously.  His screen credits include, most notably, "Full of Life" (1956), based on his 1952 novel by that name, "Jeanne Eagels" (1957), and the 1962 films "Walk on the Wild Side" and "The Reluctant Saint". José Miguel Vilar-Bou (born April 5, 1979, Alfafar, Valencia) is a contemporary Spanish novelist, short story writer, and journalist, specializing in horror fiction, science-fiction and fantasy.  His work has been awarded with several prizes in literary competitions.  His novel "Alarido de Dios" ["The Cry of God"] was a finalist for the Awards Celsius 2010 and his short story "El laberinto de la araña" ["The Spider's Labyrinth"] received in the same year the Nocte Award for the best Spanish horror story.  In the Spanish "Historia natural de los cuentos de miedo" ["Natural History of the Weird Tales"], because of the "expeditious and accurate in its proposal", critic José L. Fernández Arellano mentioned this author's story "La luz encendida" as leading among the young writers' of the genre of horror in Spain. Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel "Practical Magic", which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name.  Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.
Answer: Alice Hoffman