This author wrote Chilly Scenes of Winter. The author and the playwright of a collection of two short novels The Oakdale Affair and The Rider are not dating.
Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer. 
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 March 19, 1950) was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres. 
Chilly Scenes of Winter is Ann Beattie's first novel, published by Doubleday in September, 1976. 
The Oakdale Affair and The Rider is a collection of two short novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. 
