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This author's debut novel centers on Siggy and Graff's plan to liberate the animals in the Vienna Zoo. This author of Setting Free the Bears created a group of women who cut off their own tongues and name themselves after the rape survivor (10[1])Ellen James, (10[1])as well as a transgender former player for the Philadelphia Eagles, Roberta Muldoon. Wally Worthington's plane is shot down over Burma in a novel by this author. In that novel by this author, Dr. Larch provides abortions and mentors an obstetrician (-5[1])who takes over St. Cloud's (10[1])orphanage, Homer (10[1])Wells. (10[1])Jenny (10[1])Fields is assassinated in a novel by this author whose protagonist writes The Pension Grillparzer. For 10 points, name this author of The Cider House Rules (10[1])and The World According (10[1])to Garp. ■END■

ANSWER: John Irving [John Winslow Irving or John Wallace Blunt Jr.]
<Fredrick Morlan , Literature - American long fiction>
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2023 NASAT06/17/2023Y989%0%11%87.38