Question: John Gunther and Halldór Laxness, are American?
Related documents: [0]  [DOC] John Gunther (August 30, 1901 – May 29, 1970) was an American journalist and author whose success came primarily through a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the "Inside" books (1936–1972), including the best-selling "Inside U.S.A." in 1947. He is best known today for the memoir "Death Be Not Proud" about the death of his beloved teenage son, Johnny Gunther, from a brain tumor. [END] 
[1]  [DOC] Halldór Kiljan Laxness (] ; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was a twentieth-century Icelandic writer. Laxness wrote poetry, newspaper articles, plays, travelogues, short stories, and novels. Major influences included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; he is the only Icelandic Nobel laureate. [END] 
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