Question: Are Joyce Carol Oates and Paul Valéry both from the US?

Context articles: Lycée Français Paul Valéry de Cali
Marriages and Infidelities
Paul Valéry
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
Joyce Carol Oates
The Gravedigger's Daughter
Lycée Paul Valéry (Morocco)
Blonde (novel)
Bellefleur
First Love: A Gothic Tale

Lycée Français Paul Valéry de Cali (LPFV; Spanish: Liceo Francés "Paul Valéry" de Cali ) is a French international school in Cali, Colombia.
 It serves levels preschool through the final year of senior high school, "terminale".
Marriages and Infidelities (1972) is the fourth volume of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates.
 In this collection, Oates explores the relationship between love and betrayal.
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry ( ; ] ; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher.
 In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.
 Valéry was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 12 different years.
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares is a collection of short stories and novellas by Joyce Carol Oates.
 Published in 2011 by Mysterious Press, it contains several works that Oates had worked on over a period of fifteen years.
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer.
 Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over 40 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.
 She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel "them" (1969), two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal.
 Her novels "Black Water" (1992), "What I Lived For" (1994), "Blonde" (2000), and short story collections "The Wheel of Love" (1970) and "Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories" (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
The Gravedigger's Daughter is a 2007 novel by Joyce Carol Oates.
 It is her 36th published novel.
 The novel was based on the life of Oates's grandmother, whose father, a gravedigger settled in rural America, injured his wife, threatened his daughter, and then committed suicide.
 Oates explained that she decided to write about her family only after her parents died (in 2000 and 2003), adding that her "family history was filled with pockets of silence.
 I had to do a lot of imagining."
Lycée Paul Valéry (LPV) is a French international school in Meknès, Morocco.
 It serves levels "maternelle" (preschool) through "lycée" (senior high school).
 It is named after the French poet Paul Valéry.
Blonde is a bestselling 2000 historical novel by Joyce Carol Oates that chronicles the inner life of Marilyn Monroe, though Oates insists that the novel is a work of fiction that should not be regarded as a biography.
 It was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize (2001) and the National Book Award (2000). "
Rocky Mountain News" and "Entertainment Weekly" have listed "Blonde" as one of Joyce Carol Oates's best books, and Oates herself has said that "Blonde" is one of the two books (along with 1969's "them") for which she thinks she will be remembered.
Bellefleur (1980) is a magic realist novel by Joyce Carol Oates about the generations of an upstate New York family.
 It is the first book in Oates' "Gothic Saga" and at the time of publication represented a major departure from the modern-day themes about which Oates had written up to that point.
First Love: A Gothic Tale is a novella by award-winning novelist and essayist Joyce Carol Oates and illustrator Barry Moser.
 It tells the story of Joise S_____, a girl who goes to stay at her aunt's mansion in upstate New York.
 While there, she has an incestuous relationship with her cousin, Jared.
 The novella deals with two of the more common recurring themes in Oates' work: "teenage initiation and perplexing and problematic love."