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A poem by this author opens, “Some men like Jack and some like Jill / I’m glad that I like them both.” This author translated part of a Du Fu poem as “Drifting, what am I like? A gull (10[1])between earth and sky” in the (-5[1])collection Three Chinese Poets. In a novel by this author, a lawyer who owns the despised cat Charlemagne answers a classified ad in which the drummer for the band Liquid Sheep calls her ex a “well-rounded and well-meaning square.” This author used rhyming couplets for the table of contents of a novel in which a student turns down a cricketer for a shoe manufacturer. This author wrote a novel about San Francisco yuppies entirely in (10[1])Onegin stanzas, (10[1])and a long novel in which Rupa Mehra seeks a husband for her daughter Lata (“LUH-tah”). For 10 points, name this author of The Golden Gate and A Suitable Boy. ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

ANSWER: Vikram Seth
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Jisoon YooTexas AAppalachian State3810
John ChenUBC AIowa A44-5
Kevin ParkClaremont ATexas A&M A11910
Isaac OlsonUW AIowa B12110
Aswath KaraiMichigan State ARice A1510
Roan DowlingIowa AUBC A15110
Rahul KumarRice AMichigan State A1510
Cormac BeirneSorbonneTexas A&M B15110

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