This author’s essay “The True Reward of the Novelist,” analogizes copyists as fakirs and businessmen who “prostitute the good name of American literature for a sliding scale of royalties.” The central character abuses his lover Ida Wade and hesitates to rescue a drowning man in this author's Vandover and the Brute. In one novel, this author described a character having to amputate her fingers after they became infected from her hobby of (*) painting toy animals with toxic paint. That novel ends with her titular husband beating her to death then ending up handcuffed to her cousin in Death Valley. (10[1])This author chronicled the Derrick family’s fight against the encompassing reach of railroad companies. For 10 points, identify this author of McTeague, who wrote (10[2])The (10[1])Octopus as part of his unfinished Epic of the Wheat trilogy. ■END■ (10[1]0[6])