Question: Jane Smiley and Connie May Fowler, have which occupation in common?

Context articles: Jane Smiley
Before Women Had Wings
A Thousand Acres
Some Luck
The Best American Short Stories 1995
The Greenlanders
Connie May Fowler
Beale family
The Secret Lives of Dentists
Moo (novel)

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).
Before Women Had Wings is a 1997 television film, based on the story by Connie May Fowler about a mother whose abusive husband commits suicide.
 She then starts to violently abuse her two daughters.
 It is only then that a kindly black woman becomes good friends with her youngest daughter and helps the daughter escape her tortured life.
 The film stars Ellen Barkin, Oprah Winfrey, Tina Majorino, and Julia Stiles.
 Barkin won an Emmy for her role.
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.
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 Greenlanders is a 1984 historical-fiction epic novel by American author Jane Smiley.
Connie May Fowler (born January 3, 1960 to parents of multi-cultural backgrounds) is an American novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter, and poet.
 Her semi-autobiographical novel, "Before Women had Wings", received the 1996 Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Buck Award (League of American Pen Women).
 She adapted the novel for Oprah Winfrey and the subsequent Emmy-winning film starred Winfrey, Ellen Barkin, Julia Stiles, and Tina Majorino.
 "Remembering Blue" received the Chautauqua South Literary Award.
 Three of her novels were Dublin International Literary Award nominees.
 Her other novels include "Sugar Cage" and "River of Hidden Dreams".
 "The Problem with Murmur Lee" was Redbook’s premier book club selection.
 Her memoir, "When Katie Wakes", explores her family’s generational cycle of domestic violence.
 "How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly", a novel oft compared to Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" in term of its structure, was published in 2010.
 Her latest book, a memoir titled "A Million Fragile bones," will be published April 20, 2017 by Twisted Road Publications.
 It explores her life on an isolated barrier island and the horrific impact and aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill.
 Her books have been translated into eighteen languages (http://www.conniemayfowler.com/about.html).
The Beales, together with the Fowlers, are a fictional family in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders".
 They were the main family for storylines in early "EastEnders" and remained as such for many years.
 Having appeared continuously from episode one, they are the show's longest serving family.
 In 2004 Peter Beale and Lucy Beale were recast to give them a more mature look.
 In 2007, there were few members of the Beale family left and no Fowlers, so the family were revamped.
 Peter was recast again.
 Ian Beale started a relationship with Jane Beale and Steven Beale also returned.
 By 2010, the number of Beales had fallen again.
 Lucy was recast and in 2013, Peter and Bobby were recast and Cindy Williams Jnr, the half-sister of Peter and Lucy, was reintroduced.
 In addition to this at the start of 2014 Bex Fowler returned to the serial with her mother Sonia Fowler, with Martin Fowler following 11 months later in December.
 In 2014 Lucy is found dead, causing her family and friends to struggle to come to terms with her death and the secrets she left behind, putting many people in the frame for her murder.
 It was revealed on 19 February 2015 that she was killed by her own little brother, Bobby.
 It was also revealed that Kathy Beale, who was presumed dead in 2006, was alive after having faked her death with her new husband in South Africa.
 In December 2016 Michelle Fowler returned to Albert Square after originally leaving in 1995, although now played by Jenna Russell.
 Members of the Beale family by blood currently in "EastEnders" include Ian, Michelle, Martin, Bex and Louie.
 Additionally, several others may be considered Beales through marriage; Jane, Kathy, Sonia and Stacey Fowler are among these.
 Also, Whitney Dean was adopted by Bianca Butcher, who is a member of the Beale family.
 Lily Fowler and Arthur Fowler have both taken Martin's surname and have him as their stepfather.
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.
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.