A novel by this author begins with the line: “Waking up begins with saying and and now.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this English-born novelist who wrote about the grieving gay professor George in A Single Man. This author’s novel Goodbye to Berlin inspired the musical Cabaret.
ANSWER: Christopher Isherwood [or Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood]
[10h] Isherwood created this wig-wearing communist agent who titles a novel often paired with Goodbye to Berlin. In that novel, the detached aesthete William Bradshaw meets this character on a train from Amsterdam.
ANSWER: Mr. Norris [or Arthur Norris; accept Mr. Norris Changes Trains]
[10e] Because he is “ugly, effeminate, and a masochist,” Joshua Glenn characterized Mr. Norris as the “anti-” this character. This staple of espionage fiction is the star of the novels The Spy Who Loved Me and Dr. No.
ANSWER: James Bond [accept Agent 007]
<Maryland A, British Literature>