Question

In a novel by this author, a man who collects junk uses a broken umbrella to explain his desire to create a new language. In that novel by this author, an academic reveals that Humpty Dumpty and Columbus’s egg inspired his pseudonym Henry Dark. At the end of a novel by this author, the narrator receives a red notebook, implying that a man who walked in patterns spelling “THE TOWER OF BABEL” was the writer Fanshawe (10[1])(“FAN-shaw”). This author, who died in 2024, was married to novelist Siri Hustvedt. Blue spends over (-5[1])a year alone in an apartment (10[1])watching Black in this author’s novella Ghosts, which follows a novel in which this author’s identity is assumed by the mystery writer Daniel (-5[1])Quinn. For 10 points, name this author of City of Glass, which is part of his postmodern detective series The New York Trilogy. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Paul Auster [or Paul Benjamin Auster]
<HG, American Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ned TagtmeierChicago AIndiana B7510
Neal JoshiWashU BMissoui S&T90-5
Alvin GuoChicago DIllinois A9610
Charles HangWashU AIndiana A119-5
Liam StarnesChicago BIllinois C1430
Jakob MyersIndiana AWashU A14310
Jacob HarlMissoui S&TWashU B1430

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