Question: Was Melissa Bank or Kingsley Amis an American author?
Context: Hampstead novel is a term used – often in a derogatory sense – to describe a particular genre of English fiction.  Journalist and literary critic Kate Kellaway has described it as "a middle-class morality novel – probably involving adultery and shallow-masquerading-as-deep."  Author and journalist Bill Buford calls it "middle class monologue".  A novel in this genre takes place in the affluent Hampstead area of London, or in a similar neighbourhood.  One novelist who is particularly often associated with the Hampstead novel is Margaret Drabble.  Other authors considered proponents of the style include Margaret Forster, Fay Weldon, Penelope Lively, Kingsley Amis, Ian McEwan, Melvyn Bragg and Zoë Heller. Zachary Leader (born 1946) is a professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton.  He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, and later pursued graduate study at Trinity College, Cambridge and at Harvard University.  Though born in the U.S. and remaining an American citizen, Leader has lived and worked for over forty years in the UK.  His best-known works are probably "The Letters of Kingsley Amis", which he edited and published in 2001, and "The Life of Kingsley Amis" (2006, UK; 2007, US), a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.  The first volume of his two-volume biography of Saul Bellow, "The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964", was published in May 2015 by Alfred Knopf in the US and Jonathan Cape in the UK.  "On Life-Writing", an edited collection, will be published in September by OUP.  He is General Editor of the Oxford History of Life-Writing, a seven-volume series published by OUP.  A recipient of Guggenheim, Leverhulme and British Academy Fellowships, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. "The Tunnel under the World" is a science fiction short story by American writer Frederik Pohl.  It was first published in 1955 in "Galaxy" magazine.  It has often been anthologised, appearing among the others in "The Golden Age of Science Fiction", edited by Kingsley Amis (1981). "Specialist" is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert Sheckley.  It was first published in 1953 and has appeared in various collections, including" Untouched by Human Hands" (1954) and" The Golden Age of Science Fiction", edited by Kingsley Amis in 1981. Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher.  He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism.  According to his biographer, Zachary Leader, Amis was "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century."  He is the father of British novelist Martin Amis. The Green Man (ISBN  ) is a 1969 novel by British author Kingsley Amis.  A "Times Literary Supplement" reviewer described "The Green Man" as "three genres of novel in one": ghost story, moral fable, and comic novel.  The novel reflects Amis's willingness to experiment with genre novels (e.g., "The Alteration" (science fiction/alternate history), or "Colonel Sun: a James Bond Adventure") while displaying many of the characteristics of his conventional novels, both in superficial aspects such as fogeyishness and problems with alcohol, and in more substantive aspects such as a self-reflective observation of human cruelty and selfishness in everyday relations. Robert Markham is a pseudonym used by author Kingsley Amis to publish "Colonel Sun" in March 1968.  The book was the first continuation James Bond novel following the death of Bond's creator, Ian Fleming. The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2001) was assembled and edited by the American literary critic Zachary Leader.  It is a collection of more than 800 letters from Amis to many different friends and professional acquaintances from 1941 until shortly before his death in 1995.  About one quarter of the letters selected were addressed to Amis's close friend, the poet Philip Larkin. Erec Rex is a series of six books for children by American author Kaza Kingsley, the first published by Firelight Press in 2006.  The first book in the Erec Rex series was chosen as a Border's Original Voices pick.  The fifth book, "The Secret of Ashona", was published on February 7, 2012.  The sixth book was confirmed by the author on March 12, 2014, published by Simon & Schuster. Melissa Bank (born in 1961 in Philadelphia) is an American author.  She has published two books, "The Wonder Spot" a volume of short stories, and "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing," a novel, which have been translated into over 30 languages.  Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction.  She currently teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
Answer: Bank (born in 1961 in Philadelphia) is an American author.