Who of the following writers was not a British novelist?

William Faulkner, in full William Cuthbert Faulkner, original surname Falkner, (born September 25, 1897, New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.—died July 6, 1962, Byhalia, Mississippi), American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.

- Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Samuel Butler were British novelists.

Source: Britannica