Question: Are Mary McCarthy and Chuck Palahniuk both American?
Context: Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk ( ) (born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as "transgressional" fiction.  He is the author of the award-winning novel "Fight Club", which also was made into an acclaimed film of the same name. Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American novelist, critic and political activist. Haunted is a 2005 novel by Chuck Palahniuk.  The plot is a frame story for a series of 23 short stories, most preceded by a free verse poem.  Each story is followed by a chapter of the main narrative, is told by a character in main narrative, and ties back into the main story in some way.  Typical of Palahniuk's work, the dominant motifs in "Haunted" are sexual deviance, sexual identity, homosexuality, desperation, social distastefulness, disease, murder, death, and existentialism. Fight Club is a 1999 American film based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk.  The film was directed by David Fincher, and stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter.  Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, referred to as the narrator, who is discontented with his white-collar job.  He forms a "fight club" with soap maker Tyler Durden, played by Pitt, and they are joined by men who also want to fight recreationally.  The narrator becomes embroiled in a relationship with Durden and a dissolute woman, Marla Singer, played by Bonham Carter. Classified as a Minimalist writer, and a student of the famous American novelist Chuck Palahniuk which he had received an intensive course in minimalism writing through the Internet. Jason Tanamor (born April 25, 1975) is an American author, writer, and entertainment interviewer.  He also works as a contract specialist for the United States Department of Defense.  His novels range from dark in nature to satirical and from young adult to children's.  His last two novels, "Anonymous" and "Drama Dolls", have received critical acclaim from major publications such as Publishers Weekly – who called him a "promising writer with lots of potential" and compared him to Chuck Palahniuk and Charles Bukowski – and Audio Book Reviewer. Rodrigo Corral is an American graphic artist.  He is currently the creative director at Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  He has designed covers for the Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Díaz and bestselling authors Chuck Palahniuk and John Green, among many others.  He has designed the "New York Times" bestselling books "Decoded" by Jay-Z, "Classy" by Derek Blasberg, and "Influence" by Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen.  He studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City where he also has taught. Sarahbeth Purcell is an American author of fiction.  Her first book, "Love Is The Drug", was published in 2003 in hardback and in trade paperback in 2004.  Her second book, "This is Not a Love Song" was published in trade paperback in 2005.  Purcell has been compared to Chuck Palahniuk (author of "Fight Club" and "Lullaby", as well as Nick Hornby (well known as the author of "High Fidelity"), and her work has been likened to read more like well crafted songs than words, due in part to her fast paced, deeply observational and lyrical prose.  Purcell is also a visual artist of both photography and paintings. Invisible Monsters is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 1999.  It is his third novel to be published, though it was his second written novel (after "Insomnia: If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Already").  The novel was originally supposed to be Palahniuk's first novel to be published, but it was rejected by the publisher for being too disturbing.  After the success of his novel "Fight Club", "Invisible Monsters" was given a second chance, and a revised version of it was published.  The first edition was released in paperback in 1999, and on June 11, 2012, it was published in hardcover, in a revised edition titled "Invisible Monsters Remix" (ISBN  ).  The novel has been adapted into a graphic novel by comic artist KGZ, a.k.a. Gabor Kiss. Choke is a 2001 novel by American author Chuck Palahniuk.  The story focuses on Victor, a sex addict, who must find work in order to afford the care that his mother is receiving in her nursing home.  Victor first resorts to being a con man, then after receiving money from various "good Samaritans", gets a job at a colonial reenactment museum before building a dream home for himself.  The novel was later adapted for film by Clark Gregg.
Answer: yes