A prologue by this author recounts the development of a joke in which passengers on a steamboat to Alexandria shout “Hans” after two Lebanese men humiliate the title “Tramp from Piraeus.” In a story by this author, a Zulu man spits in the face of a gay public official named Bobby who attempts to pick him up in a bar before being beaten at a checkpoint. Back-to-back stories in a collection by this author follow the insane Man-Man and the poet B. Wordsworth. The linked stories “One out of Many” and “Tell Me Who to Kill” appear in this author’s book In a Free State. The six-fingered title character of a novel by this author lives at the Hanuman House with the Tulsi family. For 10 points, name this Trinidadian author of Miguel Street and A House for Mr. Biswas. ■END■
ANSWER: V. S. Naipaul [or Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul]
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