Question: Were V. C. Andrews and John Banville from the same country?

Context articles: Doctor Copernicus
The Sea (2013 film)
Ghosts (Banville novel)
John Banville
The Newton Letter
David Thomson (film critic)
Kepler (novel)
Athena (novel)
Ancient Light
V. C. Andrews

Doctor Copernicus is a novel by John Banville, first published in 1976.
 "A richly textured tale" about Nicolaus Copernicus, it won that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
The Sea is a 2013 British-Irish drama film directed by Stephen Brown.
 It is based on the novel of the same name by John Banville, who also wrote the screenplay for the film.
 The film premiered in competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 23 June 2013.
 The film had its North American premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
Ghosts is a novel by Irish writer John Banville.
 Published in 1993, it was his first novel since "The Book of Evidence" (1989), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
 The second in what Banville described as a "triptych", to make "an investigation of the way in which the imagination works."
 This novel features many of the same characters and relates to events of the previous novel.
William John Banville (born 8 December 1945), who writes as John Banville and sometimes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter.
 Recognised for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators, Banville is considered to be "one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today."
 He has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov."
The Newton Letter is a novel by John Banville, first published in 1982.
 It was published in the United States in 1987.
 Drawing comparisons with Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier" and John Hawkes's "The Blood Oranges" for their use of the unreliable narrator, "The Newton Letter" was described there as Banville's "most impressive work to date".
David Thomson (born 18 February 1941) is a British film critic and historian based in the United States and the author of more than 20 books.
 His reference works in particular — "Have You Seen...?
: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films" (2008) and "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" (6th edition, 2014) — have been praised as works of high literary merit and eccentricity.
 Benjamin Schwarz, writing in "The Atlantic Monthly", called him "probably the greatest living film critic and historian" who "writes the most fun and enthralling prose about the movies since Pauline Kael".
 John Banville called him “the greatest living writer on the movies”.
Kepler is a novel by John Banville, first published in 1981.
Athena (1995) is a novel by John Banville.
Ancient Light is a 2012 novel by Irish writer John Banville.
 First published on 7 July 2012, the novel concludes a trilogy concerning Alexander Cleave and his daughter, Cass.
 "Ancient Light" was preceded by "Shroud" and "Eclipse".
Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 – December 19, 1986), better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, was an American novelist.
 She was born in Portsmouth, Virginia.
 Andrews died of breast cancer at the age of 63.