What was the nationality of the author whose novella Revenge was based on
American
Jim Harrison
James Harrison (December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016) was an American writer known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, essays about the outdoors, and writings about food.
 He is best known for his 1979 novella "Legends of the Fall".
 He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway.
 Harrison's characters tend to be rural by birth and to have retained some qualities of their agrarian pioneer heritage which explains their sense of rugged intelligence and common sense.
 They attune themselves to both the natural and the civilized world, surrounded by excesses but determined to live their lives as well as possible.
Revenge (1990 film)
Revenge is a 1990 romantic thriller film directed by Tony Scott and starring Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn, Madeleine Stowe, Miguel Ferrer and Sally Kirkland.
 Some scenes were filmed in Mexico.
 The film is a production of New World Pictures and Rastar Films and was released by Columbia Pictures.
 "Revenge" also features one of John Leguizamo's earliest film roles.
 The film is based on a novella written by Jim Harrison and published in "Esquire" magazine in 1979.
 Harrison, who also wrote "Legends of the Fall", co-wrote the script.
Brian James Freeman
Brian James Freeman is an author whose fiction has been published in magazines and anthologies including "Borderlands 5", "Corpse Blossoms", and all four volumes of the "Shivers" series.
 His first novel, "Black Fire," was written under the pseudonym James Kidman.
 Published in 2004 by Leisure Books and Cemetery Dance Publications, the book was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, one of the major awards in the horror genre.
 His work has been nominated for several awards in the horror genre over the years.
 Cemetery Dance Publications recently published his "Blue November Storms," a new novella, and "The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book," which he wrote with Stephen King expert Bev Vincent.
 Acclaimed horror artist Glenn Chadbourne created over fifty unique illustrations for the book. Kiss All the Boys
Kiss All the Boys (できのいいキス悪いキス , Deki no Ii Kiss Warui Kiss ) is a yaoi comedy manga by Shiuko Kano published by Ohzora Publishing and later by Futabasha.
 It was licensed in English by Aurora Publishing under their Deux Press imprint and released between March 2008 and October 2008.
 It has been published in Chinese by Tong Li Publishing.
 "Kiss All the Boys" is about a hentai author whose gay teenage son comes to live with him, and the author's discovery of his own homosexuality. Pamela Dean
Pamela Collins Dean Dyer-Bennet (born 1953), better known as Pamela Dean, is an American fantasy author whose best-known book is "Tam Lin", based on the Child Ballad of the same name, in which the Scottish fairy story is set on a midwestern college campus loosely based on her alma mater, Carleton College in Minnesota. Jeremy Lent
Jeremy Lent (born 1960) is an author whose writings investigate the patterns of thought that have led our civilization to its current crisis of sustainability.
 He is a founder of the non-profit Liology Institute, which is dedicated to fostering a worldview that will enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the earth.
 He is the author of "The Patterning Instinct" (Prometheus Books, 2017) and "Requiem of the Human Soul" (Libros Libertad, 2009).
 Earlier in his career, Lent was the founder, chairman, and CEO of the internet company NextCard. Jane Green (author)
Jane Green, born in 1968, also known by her married name, Jane Green Warburg, is an English-born American author whose works of fiction are American and international bestsellers.
 As of 2014, Green's books had sold in excess of 10 million copies globally, with translations of them appearing in thirty-one languages, making her a leading author, globally, of commercial women's fiction.
 With regard to genres, she has been described as "[o]ne of the first of the chick lit" authors, and as a founding author of the form of fiction sometimes referred to as "mum lit." Oleg Zaionchkovsky
Oleg Viktorovich Zaionchkovsky (Russian: Олег Викторович Зайончковский ) was born in 1959 in Samara, on the east bank of the Volga River.
 He is a notable Russian author whose writing has been shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and the National Bestseller Prize.
 He is the author of "Sergeev and the Town" (2005) and "Happiness is Possible" (And Other Stories, 2012). Ross Clark (journalist)
Ross Clark (born 12 September 1966) is a British journalist and author whose work has appeared in "The Spectator", "The Times" and other publications.
 He is the author of several books, including "How to Label a Goat: the silly Rules and Regulations that are strangling Britain" and "The Great Before", a novel which satirised the pessimism of the green movement.
 He is a frequent critic of British government policy, especially on its interventions in the housing market. Elsie B. Washington
Elsie Bernice Washington (December 28, 1942 – May 5, 2009) was an American author whose 1980 work "Entwined Destinies" has been considered the first romance novel written by an African-American author featuring African-American characters.