Question

In a novel by this author, a man is accused of robbing a dead woman’s body on a beach after finding a notebook he had previously written in with a stolen pencil. The protagonist (15[1])of a novel by this (15[1])author finds a death threat on a bookmark signed by the “ghost of Wyndham Lewis” after presenting (-5[1])a paper on Roland Barthes titled “F/V” to the Nouveau Roman Society. A character converses in dreams with Enlightenment thinkers (15[1])like John Locke and Voltaire in a novel (15[2])by this author framed by a songbook belonging to Daniel Decatur (15[1])Emmett. (15[1])Juanita Mae Jenkins’s (*) We’s Lives In Da Ghetto (10[1])satirizes (-5[1])Sapphire’s Push in a novel (10[1])by this (10[1])author (10[2])about a professor’s (10[1])rise to fame after publishing (10[1])the parodic novel (-5[1])My Pafology. (10[2])A 2024 novel by this author retells (10[1])the events of (-5[1])Huckleberry Finn from the perspective (10[1])of Jim. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this contemporary African-American author of Erasure and James. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Percival Everett [or Percival Leonard Everett II]
<Literature - American Literature - Misc Literature>
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John LawrenceWalston et. al.12 Litres of Green Tea104-5
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