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In a novel by this author, a man is accused of robbing a dead woman’s body on a beach after finding a notebook he had previously written in with a stolen pencil. The protagonist (15[1])of a novel by this author finds a death threat on a bookmark signed by the “ghost of Wyndham Lewis” after presenting a paper on Roland Barthes titled “F/V” to the Nouveau Roman Society. A character converses in dreams with Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke and Voltaire in a novel (15[1])by this author framed by a songbook belonging to Daniel Decatur Emmett. Juanita Mae Jenkins’s (*) We’s Lives In Da Ghetto satirizes Sapphire’s Push in a novel by this author about a professor’s rise to fame after publishing the parodic novel My Pafology. (10[1])A 2024 novel by this author retells the events of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim. For 10 points, name this contemporary African-American author of Erasure and James. ■END■

ANSWER: Percival Everett [or Percival Leonard Everett II]
<Literature - American Literature - Misc Literature>
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