Question

In a novel by this author, characters visit a lake where Tony Jaguar brought bone charcoal from the site of an Italian massacre. This author wrote a novel narrated by Reverend Cherrycoke about two surveyors visiting Africa. In a novel by this author, (10[1])a story about Byron the Lightbulb is told by Dr. Laszlo Jamf. An organization created by this author is symbolized by the word WASTE and a muted post horn. That organization, Trystero, appears in this author’s novel about Oedipa Maas. In another novel by this author, the launching of V2 rockets mirrors Tyrone Slothrop’s sexual encounters. For 10 points, name this author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity’s Rainbow. ■END■

ANSWER: Thomas Pynchon [or Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.] (The novel in the second line is Mason & Dixon.)
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2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY1100%0%0%42.00