This author’s essay “The True Reward of the Novelist,” analogizes copyists as fakirs and businessmen (-5[1])who “prostitute the good name of American literature for a sliding scale of royalties.” (-5[1])The central character abuses his lover Ida Wade and hesitates to rescue a drowning man in this author's Vandover and the Brute. In one novel, this author described a character having to amputate her fingers after they became infected from her hobby of (*) painting toy (10[1])animals with toxic paint. That novel ends with her titular husband beating her to death then ending up handcuffed to her cousin in Death (10[1])Valley. (10[8]-5[1])This author chronicled (10[2])the Derrick (10[2])family’s fight against the encompassing reach of railroad companies. (10[3]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[2])identify (10[1])this author of McTeague, (10[1]-5[1])who wrote (10[4])The (10[2])Octopus (10[2])as part of (10[1])his (10[1])unfinished (10[1])Epic of the Wheat trilogy. ■END■ (10[3]0[14])