An essay by this author examines Lionel Trilling’s failure to realize E. M. Forster was gay and notes F.O. Matthiessen’s disapproving analysis of a passage by Walt Whitman. In a novel by this author, the protagonist is attracted to the younger sculptor Hendrik and feels guilty for the death of his friend’s cousin Minny. The protagonist of a novel by this author returns home to mourn her sister Rose’s death, (15[1])where she is conflicted whether to return to her husband, the Italian plumber (*) Tony (10[1])Fiorello. In a novel by this author, Father Flood (-5[1])helps Eilis Lacey immigrate to New York City in the 1950s. (10[4])A novel by this writer opens with Oscar Wilde’s An (10[1])Ideal Husband overshadowing another author’s failed premiere (10[1])of the play Guy Domville. For 10 points, (10[1])name (10[1])this Irish author of Brooklyn, (10[1])who fictionalized the life of Henry James in The Master. ■END■