Not if one looks beyond white male novelists born in the United States and Western Europe.

Larry Heinemann (born 1944) is an American novelist born and raised in Chicago.

The second son John George Lang was the first published novelist born in Australia.

Debbie Lee Wesselmann is a novelist born in New York City.

Justin Torres is an American novelist, born 1980.

Laura Whitcomb is an American novelist, born on December 19, 1958.

Solenn Colléter is a French novelist born in Paris in 1974.

Gregory Norminton is a novelist born in Berkshire, England, in 1976.

Bertha Jane Grundy was a novelist born in 1837?

A Syrian novelist and thinker, born in Damascus 1946.