This author wrote about one contestant flubbing quiz show questions like “name a primary color,” while his opponent correctly recites the first paragraph of Emerson’s “Self-Reliance.” In that novel by this author, a pro-life sniper kills the narrator’s abortionist sister. (15[1])In another novel by this author, the algebraic topologist Eigen Vector and the one-legged (15[1])bulldog (15[1])Trigo assist the autistic Wala Kitu in stopping a Bond villain-wannabe from stealing the concept of “nothing” from Fort Knox. After being dismayed to find his retelling of Aeschylus’s The Persians in the (*) African-American Studies section of Borders, (10[1])a character created by this (-5[1])author (10[1])uses the pen (10[1])name Stagg (10[1])R. Lee (10[1])to write a (10[1])pandering (10[1])dialect novel called Fuck. (10[1])For 10 points, name this contemporary African-American author of comic metafictional novels like Dr. No and Erasure. ■END■