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

ANSWER: Percival Everett [or Percival Leonard Everett II]
<Literature - American Literature - Misc Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tai BelkeUBCCLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!123-5
Henry BonI wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retireAw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms13210
Joel MilesThompson et al.throw away your cards, rally in the streets14210
Steven YuanCLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!UBC15510

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