Question

Photographs and letters are interspersed in a nonfiction work by this author that follows his great aunt Hennerle Gerda Caro, with whom the protagonist lives while attending Tonbridge School. In a novel by this author, whose table of contents uses rhyming couplets to summarize its nineteen parts, a character writes a wedding proposal through the acrostic “A Modest Proposal.” This author of Two Lives included the claim “The Dow-Jones of my heart’s depressed” in a novel whose protagonist meets (*) Liz Dorati. The programmer John Brown is the protagonist of a novel by this author composed of 590 Onegin stanzas. (10[2])Kabir plays Malvolio in a rendition of Twelfth Night in a novel by this author in which Rupa Mehra tries to find a husband for Lata. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Indian author of The Golden Gate and (10[1])A Suitable Boy. ■END■

ANSWER: Vikram Seth
<Noah Sheidlower, World Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tony ChenToronto WearyLa Clique du Château9810
Henry AtkinsLibrary of Babel School of Continuing StudiesToronto Rofl9810
Ben WismathToronto JoyWaterloo Miku12410
Jared HeWaterloo HatsuneMixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian13610

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2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%0%0%124.00
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y6100%50%0%77.67
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%50%0%78.00
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y367%33%33%93.00
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y5100%60%0%71.60
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y4100%0%0%114.00
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y4100%0%0%110.75
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y2100%50%0%78.00