An author with this surname wrote a novel split into a novel-within-a-novel, a diary, a memoir, and an autobiography surrounding the tycoon Andrew Bevel. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this surname of the author of Trust, a 2023 joint winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. A Mojave poet with this surname won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry with her collection Postcolonial Love Poem.
ANSWER: Diaz [accept Natalie Diaz; accept Hernan Diaz]
[10m] The Argentine author Hernan Diaz moved to this US city, where he set Trust. In a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, Oskar tries to find people with the surname Black in this city after his father’s death.
ANSWER: New York City [or NYC] (The novel is Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.)
[10e] Hernan Diaz’s novel Trust is structured as a novel of this type. In 2005, Marilynne Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Gilead, a novel of this type that is told through documents like letters.
ANSWER: epistolary novels
<American Literature>