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. Kabir (10[2])plays Malvolio in a rendition of Twelfth Night in a novel by this author in which Rupa Mehra tries to find a husband (10[1])for (10[1])Lata. For 10 points, name this Indian author of The Golden Gate and A Suitable Boy. ■END■

ANSWER: Vikram Seth
<Noah Sheidlower, World Literature>
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