Question: Was Melissa Bank or Kingsley Amis an American author?

full_context: Document 1: Melissa Bank: 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.
Document 2: The Letters of Kingsley Amis: 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.
Document 3: The James Bond Dossier: The James Bond Dossier (1965), by Kingsley Amis, is a critical analysis of the James Bond novels. Amis dedicated the book to friend and background collaborator, the poet and historian Robert Conquest. Later, after Ian Fleming's death, Amis was commissioned as the first continuation novelist for the James Bond novel series, writing "Colonel Sun" (1968) under the pseudonym Robert Markham. "The James Bond Dossier" was the first, formal, literary study of the James Bond character. More recent studies of Fleming's secret agent and his world include "The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming’s Novels to the Big Screen" (2001), by the historian Jeremy Black.
Document 4: Kingsley Amis: 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.
Document 5: Leila Philip: Leila Philip (born April 18, 1961, New York City) is an American writer, poet and educator. She is the author of three books of memoir and narrative non-fiction ("A Family Place: A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family", "Hidden Dialogue: A Discussion Between Women in Japan and the United States", "The Road Through Miyama") and one collection of poetry ("Water Rising"). Philip has been anthologized in a number of books, including: Brief Encounters, Teaching Creative Non-Fiction, Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers; Family Travels: The Farther You Go the Closer You Get; Japan: True Stories of Life on the Road, A Woman’s Passion for Travel. She has contributed articles and reviews to newspapers, magazines, research and journals including "Ploughshares", "The Christian Science Monitor", Studio Potter Magazine, the "Yomiuri Shimbun" and the "Daily Yomiuri". Philip has written about art for Artcritical, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas and Art in America. She is the Contributing Editor of Riverteeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative
Document 6: Jincy Willett: Jincy Willett is an author and writing teacher currently living in San Diego, California. She has written short pieces for various anthologies and periodicals including the Winter 2006 issue of "Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern" and "Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules". Her first book, a collection of short stories called "Jenny and the Jaws of Life", was initially published in 1987 to critical acclaim but smaller-than-expected sales. The public admiration of Willett's writing expressed by David Sedaris, however, had the book in reprint in 2002, garnering praise from critics and public alike.
Document 7: Samanta Schweblin: Samanta Schweblin was born in Buenos Aires in 1978. In 2001 she was granted her first award by the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (national Fund of the Arts). In that same year, her first book "El núcleo del Disturbio" (Planeta, 2002) garnered her the first prize of the Concurso Nacional Haroldo Conti. (National Contest Haroldo Conti). In 2008 she obtained the prize "Casa de las Americas" for her storybook "La Furia de las pestes", soon to be published. She was included in the anthologies "Quand elles se glissent dans la peau d'un homme" (Éditions Michalon, Francia. 2007), "Una terraza propia" (Norma, 2006), "La joven guardia" (Norma, 2005), "Cuentos Argentinos" (Siruela, España 2004), among others. In 2010 she was chosen by the Granta magazine as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under 35 years. Some of her stories have been translated into English, French, Serbian, Swedish, Dutch, and Danish, and published in magazines and other cultural forums. An English translation of her story "Killing a Dog" was published in the Summer 2009 issue of the London-based quarterly newspaper The Drawbridge.
Document 8: Lives of Girls and Women: Lives of Girls and Women is a short story cycle by Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson in 1971. All of the stories chronicle the life of a single character, Del Jordan, and the book has been characterized as a novel by some critics as a result.
Document 9: Evelyn Waugh: Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh ( ; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer of books. His most famous works include the early satires "Decline and Fall" (1928) and "A Handful of Dust" (1934), the novel "Brideshead Revisited" (1945) and the Second World War trilogy "Sword of Honour" (1952–61). Waugh is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
Document 10: The Green Man (Amis novel): 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.
Document 11: Zachary Leader: 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.
Document 12: Alice Sebold: Alice Sebold (born September 6, 1963) is an American writer. She has published three books: "Lucky" (1999), "The Lovely Bones" (2002), and "The Almost Moon" (2007).
Document 13: Martin Amis: Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist. His best-known novels are "Money" (1984) and "London Fields" (1989). He has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir "Experience" and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice to date (shortlisted in 1991 for "Time's Arrow" and longlisted in 2003 for "Yellow Dog"). Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011. In 2008, "The Times" named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Document 14: The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter: The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter
Document 15: Melissa Walker: Melissa Walker (born June 4, 1977) is an American author, working primarily in the young adult (teen) genre. She is also a freelance writer and has held several editorial positions at American magazines.
ground_truth: Bank (born in 1961 in Philadelphia) is an American author.