The novelist that wrote the collection of ten short stories called The Watchful Gods and Other Stories is American. The writer of Where the Heart Is (novel) is also American.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark (August 3, 1909  November 10, 1971) was an American novelist, short story writer, and educator. 
Billie Dean Letts (ne Gipson; May 30, 1938  August 2, 2014) was an American novelist and educator. 
The Watchful Gods and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Walter Van Tilburg Clark published in 1950. 
Where the Heart Is is a 1995 novel by Billie Letts. 
