In a comic story by this author, a factory worker who lies about his cricket skills somehow manages to hit a six before the match ends due to rain. A novel by this author contains a long stream-of-consciousness passage that begins by describing summer coming to the city and girls changing their winter coats for light frocks. In that novel by this author, a woman threatens to call the police on a starving man who catches a pigeon in a park. Attendees of “fetes” in a novel by this author include a man nicknamed for being (*) “blacker than midnight,” Five past Twelve. This author shared a typewriter with George Lamming while coincidentally crossing the Atlantic on the same ship. Moses Ascending is a sequel to a novel by this author that follows immigrants like Tolroy and Galahad and is written in creole English. For 10 points, name this Trinidadian-British author of The Lonely Londoners. ■END■
ANSWER: Sam Selvon [or Samuel Dickson Selvon]
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