Tossup
In a book by this author, a researcher notes that a subject can read after he pronounces the word “delicatessen” backwards. In a novella by this author, a scientist discovers a frog’s belly enlarged by a red ray from a microscope. Humanity is attacked by aggressive reptile-bird hybrids created in the wake of a chicken extinction in that book by this author, The Fatal Eggs. The title character of a novella by this author gets a job catching stray cats after an experiment in which Dr. Preobrazhensky attaches a human pituitary gland and testicles to the stray mutt Sharik. In a novel by this author, a writer destroys his book on Pontius Pilate, prompting Professor Woland to tell him that “manuscripts don’t burn.” For 10 points, name this Soviet author of Heart of a Dog and The Master and Margarita. ■END■
ANSWER: Mikhail Bulgakov [or Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov]
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