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I've had so little time for reading that I still haven't finished the book I picked up after reading The Riddle of the Labyrinth. I haven't given this month's theme much thought yet and not sure if I will nominate anything - but will try to use my votes one way or another.
The possible problem with simple author-origin is that it doesn't pick up more complex situations. Isaak Azimov started out Russian but his family migrated to America when he was very young. Arthur C. Clarke was ostensibly British but spent most of his life in Sri Lanka. Aliette de Bodard is a French-American of French/Vietnamese descent, born in the US, and grew up in Paris. Australia is proud to claim Kate Morton as our own, but she now lives in London with her family, and her writing seems much less oriented around Australia than - for example - Arthur Upfield who started British and came to Australia. (That is not intended as a criticism of Morton, I love her writing.)
And that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure that together we could come up with quite a list of authors with interesting backgrounds.
None of that negates the desire to push ourselves outside the usual comfort zones a bit.
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