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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 (“FAN-shaw”). This author, who died in 2024, was married to novelist Siri Hustvedt. Blue (-5[1])spends over a year alone in an apartment watching Black in this author’s novella Ghosts, which follows a novel (-5[1])in which this author’s identity is assumed by the mystery writer Daniel Quinn. For 10 points, name this author of City of Glass, which is part (10[1])of his postmodern detective series The New York Trilogy. ■END■ (0[4])

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