Question

In a novel by this author, a man who collects junk uses a broken umbrella to explain his desire to create a new language. In that novel by this author, an academic reveals that Humpty Dumpty and Columbus’s egg inspired his pseudonym Henry Dark. At the end of a novel by this author, the narrator receives a red notebook, implying that a man who walked in patterns spelling “THE TOWER OF BABEL” was the writer Fanshawe (10[1])(“FAN-shaw”). This author, who died in 2024, was married to novelist Siri Hustvedt. Blue (-5[1])spends over (-5[1])a year alone in an apartment (10[1])watching Black in this author’s novella Ghosts, which follows a novel (-5[1])in which this author’s identity is assumed by the mystery writer Daniel (-5[1])Quinn. For 10 (10[1])points, name this author of City of Glass, which is part (10[1])of his postmodern detective series (10[1])The New York (10[1])Trilogy. ■END■ (10[1]0[7])

ANSWER: Paul Auster [or Paul Benjamin Auster]
<HG, American Literature>
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Summary

Great Lakes2025-02-01Y520%0%40%133.00
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y1100%0%0%122.00
Midwest2025-02-01Y560%0%40%104.67
Northeast2025-02-01Y367%0%0%139.50

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ned TagtmeierChicago AIndiana B7510
Biyang ZhangMichigan BOhio State A88-5
Neal JoshiWashU BMissoui S&T90-5
Alvin GuoChicago DIllinois A9610
Anton AkroushMichigan StateOhio State B107-5
Charles HangWashU AIndiana A119-5
Joseph ChambersVirginia AVirginia Tech A12210
Rachel FanousMichigan ACase Western A13310
Michael KearneyHarvard ABrandeis B13810
Yrwin BatanMIT ABrown A14110
Peter BallasMichigan DKenyon1430
Elias KradelKenyonMichigan D1430
Rohan Navaneetha RajOhio State BMichigan State1430
Ryan JudgeCarnegie Mellon ACarnegie Mellon B1430
Jakob MyersIndiana AWashU A14310
Liam StarnesChicago BIllinois C1430
Jacob HarlMissoui S&TWashU B1430
Christopher DechBrandeis AHarvard B1430