Question: What country are novelists Jane Smiley and Melinda Haynes from?
Context: Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist.  She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel "A Thousand Acres" (1991). The Best American Short Stories 1995, a volume in "The Best American Short Stories series", was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor Jane Smiley. The Secret Lives of Dentists is a 2002 drama film directed by Alan Rudolph.  The screenplay was written by Craig Lucas, based on the novella "The Age of Grief" by Jane Smiley.  It was screened at several film festivals including Sundance and Cannes, and had a limited release in America on August 1, 2003.  To date, this is Rudolph's last film. A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners is a science fiction novel by Lois McMaster Bujold, first published in September 1999.  It is a part of the Vorkosigan Saga, and is the thirteenth full-length novel in publication order.  It is included in the 2008 omnibus "Miles in Love".  The title is an homage to the Georgette Heyer novel "A Civil Contract" and, like Heyer's historical romances, the novel focuses on romance, comedy, and courtship.  It is dedicated to "Jane, Charlotte, Georgette, and Dorothy", likely the novelists Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Georgette Heyer, and Dorothy L. Sayers or Dorothy Dunnett. The Greenlanders is a 1984 historical-fiction epic novel by American author Jane Smiley. Moo is a 1995 novel by Jane Smiley.  Its setting is a large university, known familiarly as "Moo U" because of its large agricultural college, in the American Midwest.  The novel is a satire that uses a sprawling narrative style, following the lives of dozens of characters over the course of the 1989-1990 academic year. Melinda Haynes (born 1955) is an American novelist.  She grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.  For much of her adult life she was a painter.  In 1999, she wrote her first published novel, "Mother of Pearl", while living in a mobile home in Grand Bay, Alabama.  Melinda Haynes currently resides in Mobile, Alabama with her husband, Ray.  Her writing is intimately connected with the Mississippi of the 1950s and the 1960s. A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley.  It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1991 and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name. Some Luck is a 2014 novel by Jane Smiley.  It is the first in a planned trilogy of novels about an Iowa family over the course of generations.  It was longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award. Tavis Smiley ( ; born September 13, 1964) is an American talk show host and author.  Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana.  After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles.  Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991 and, starting in 1996, he hosted the talk show "BET Talk" (later renamed "BET Tonight") on Black Entertainment Television (BET).  After Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC News in 2001, BET declined to renew his contract that year.  Smiley then began hosting "The Tavis Smiley Show" on National Public Radio (NPR) (2002–04) and currently hosts "Tavis Smiley" on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on weekdays and "The Tavis Smiley Show" on Public Radio International (PRI).  From 2010 to 2013, Smiley and Cornel West joined forces to host their own radio talk show, "Smiley & West".  They were featured together interviewing musician Bill Withers in the 2009 documentary film "Still Bill".  He is the new host of "Tavis Talks" on BlogTalkRadio's Tavis Smiley Network.
Answer: American