Question

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 of a novel by this author finds a death threat on a bookmark signed by the “ghost of Wyndham Lewis” after presenting (-5[1])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. (15[1])Juanita Mae Jenkins’s (*) We’s Lives In Da Ghetto satirizes Sapphire’s Push in a novel (10[1])by this author (10[1])about a professor’s rise to fame after publishing the parodic novel My Pafology. 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■ (0[1])

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

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ned TagtmeierThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)Clown Senpais55-5
Mike BentleyMusic to Help You Stop SmokingClown Squad8315
Matt BollingerBHSU ReFantaziohawk two of9515
Tejas RajeBHSU RebirthNotre Dame10910
Michael HundiingWho is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?Northeast by Northwestern11210
Coby TranThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five DaysWashU1550

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%33%0%96.33
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025Y3100%0%33%143.00
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025Y3100%67%0%80.33
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y4100%25%25%113.00
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y367%0%33%130.00
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y667%33%17%99.75
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%33%0%110.33