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 (15[1])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 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 (10[1])rise to fame after publishing the parodic novel My Pafology. A 2024 novel by this author retells the events of (-5[1])Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim. For 10 points, (10[1])name this contemporary African-American author of Erasure and James. (10[1])■END■

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

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere3815
Adrian WongThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers11510
Aaron Dos RemediosModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit135-5
Gareth ThorlaksonSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 14510
Jared HeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha15410

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