A poem by this author opens, “Some men like Jack and some like Jill / I’m glad that I like them both.” This author translated part of a Du Fu poem as “Drifting, what am I like? A gull between earth and sky” in the collection Three Chinese Poets. In a novel by this author, a lawyer who owns the despised cat Charlemagne answers a classified ad in which the drummer for the band Liquid Sheep calls her ex a “well-rounded and well-meaning square.” This author used rhyming couplets for the table of contents of a novel in which a student turns down a cricketer for a shoe manufacturer. This author wrote a novel about San Francisco yuppies entirely in Onegin stanzas, and a long novel in which Rupa Mehra seeks a husband for her daughter Lata (“LUH-tah”). For 10 points, name this author of The Golden Gate and A Suitable Boy. ■END■
ANSWER: Vikram Seth
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