Question: Were H. P. Lovecraft and John Updike the same nationality?
Context: U and I: A True Story is a non-fiction book by Nicholson Baker that was published in 1991.  The book is a study of how a reader engages with an author's work: partly an appreciation of John Updike, and partly a kind of self-exploration.  Rather than giving a traditional literary analysis, Baker begins the book by stating that he will read no more Updike than he already has up to that point.  All of the Updike quotations used are presented as coming from memory alone, and many are inaccurate, with correct versions and Baker's (later) commentary on the inaccuracy given in brackets. Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( ; August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction.  He was virtually unknown and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.  Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life.  Among his most celebrated tales are "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Shadow over Innsmouth", both canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos.  Lovecraft was never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor.  He saw commercial success increasingly elude him in this latter period, partly because he lacked the confidence and drive to promote himself.  He subsisted in progressively strained circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was completely spent by the time that he died at age 46. "A&P" is a short story written by John Updike in 1961.  M. Gilbert Porter called the titular A & P in Updike's story "the common denominator of middle-class suburbia, an appropriate symbol for [the] mass ethic of a consumer-conditioned society."  According to Porter, when the main character chooses to rebel against the A & P he also rebels against this consumer-conditioned society, and in so doing he "has chosen to live honestly and meaningfully."  William Peden, on the other hand, called the story "deftly narrated nonsense...which contains nothing more significant than a checking clerk's interest in three girls in bathing suits." Olinger Stories: A selection is a short story collection by John Updike first published in 1964.  This volume contained no stories newly published in book form, but reprinted stories from Updike's earlier collections.  The short stories, set in the fictional town of Olinger, Pennsylvania are in large part autobiographical, about a boy growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania as Updike did.  In an early interview, Updike once said, "they are dear to me, and if I had to give anyone one book of me it would be the Vintage OLINGER STORIES." The Early Stories: 1953–1975, published in 2003 by Knopf, is a John Updike book collecting much of his short stories written from the beginning of his writing career, when he was just 21, until 1975.  Only four stories published in this entire time period have been omitted from this collection by John Updike himself: "Intercession" (collected in "The Same Door"), and "The Pro", "One of My Generation", and "God Speaks" (collected in "Museums and Women and Other Stories").  The majority of the stories were originally published in "The New Yorker" magazine.  In 2004, the book received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Too Far to Go is a collection of short stories by the American author John Updike published in 1979 in conjunction with the showing of a two-hour television movie on the NBC network with Blythe Danner, Michael Moriarty, Kathryn Walker and Glenn Close.  The linked stories focus upon the marriage and eventual divorce of Richard and Joan Maple and depict a 1960s New York City and New England milieu through the 1970s typical of much of Updike's fiction.  Many of the stories were initially published as occasional stories in "The New Yorker" from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s.  The story "Your Lover Just Called" was later adapted into a playlet by Updike himself.  It is included in his collection "More Matter" (1999).  Most of these stories were also included in Updike's 2003 collection "", except those published after 1975; namely, "Waiting Up", "The Red-Herring Theory", "Divorcing: A Fragment", and "Here Come the Maples".  In August 2009, Everyman's Library published "The Maples Stories", a new edition of "Too Far to Go", including the final Maples story "Grandparenting". John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.  One of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others were Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. "The White Ship" is a song released by the American psychedelic rock band, H. P. Lovecraft, in November 1967.  The songwriting is credited to band members George Edwards, Dave Michaels, and Tony Cavallari.  Acting as the opening song on the second side of their debut LP, "H. P. Lovecraft", it was the album's longest track, and an edited version was also released as the band's second single.  The name and theme of the song derive directly from author H. P. Lovecraft's short story, "The White Ship".  Despite its failure to chart nationally, it is widely considered to be H. P. Lovecraft's most accomplished piece, and helped establish the group, who were originally from Chicago, in the West Coast music scene. H. P. Lovecraft is the debut album by the American psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft and was released in October 1967 by Philips Records.  It blended psychedelic and folk rock influences and was marked by the haunting, eerie ambiance of the band's music, which itself was often inspired by the literary works of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, after whom the band had named themselves.  Although most of the album comprises interpretations of traditional and contemporary folk songs, it also features the self-penned compositions "That's How Much I Love You, Baby (More or Less)", "The Time Machine", and arguably the band's best known song, "The White Ship".  The traditional song "Wayfaring Stranger" was released as a single just ahead of the album in September 1967 and "The White Ship" was issued shortly after the album appeared, although neither single reached the charts.  Like its attendant singles, "H. P. Lovecraft" was also somewhat commercially unsuccessful and failed to reach the "Billboard" Top LPs chart or the UK Albums Chart, although it did sell reasonably well over time. H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life (French: "H. P. Lovecraft : Contre le monde, contre la vie" ) is a work of literary criticism by French author Michel Houellebecq regarding the works of H. P. Lovecraft.  The English-language edition for the American and UK market was translated by Dorna Khazeni and features an introduction by American novelist Stephen King.  In some editions the book also includes two of Lovecraft's best known short stories: "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Whisperer in Darkness."
Answer: yes