In a novel by this author, a landlord hit by a ricocheting bullet after shooting at a fox stuck in a well has his wound treated by a beetroot poultice (15[2])before hanging himself (15[1])in an oak tree. In another novel by this author, an expert in atonal music once abandoned by his Jewish convert father constructs an “Inhumanity Museum” in the attic of his house. A character created by this author invents the (*) Party of Disappointed People during a period in which he hides (-5[1])dirt in his wife’s antique furniture. (10[2])This author’s midwestern background influenced his Ohio-set novels Middle C and Omensetter’s (10[1]-5[1])Luck. (10[3])This author spent decades writing a 1996 novel in which William Kohler attempts to finish Guilt and Innocence in Hitler’s Germany while digging the title structure in his basement. For 10 points, name this American author who wrote The Tunnel. (10[1])■END■