Packet E: Tossup 4

An author with this surname wrote a novel in which a spy infiltrates a French anarchist collective while growing (-5[1])entranced by their mentor, Bruno Lacombe. That author with this surname created an artist (-5[1])who motorcycles (10[1])with the Moto Valera crew and is nicknamed for her home city of Reno. This is the surname (10[1])of the author of Creation Lake (10[1])and The Flamethrowers. (10[10]-5[2])An (10[1])author with this surname (10[1]-5[1])wrote a play (10[1])in which a power broker claims that labels merely reflect (10[1])one’s “clout,” (10[1])wishes (10[1])to be reborn (10[1])as an octopus, (10[3])and offers a job (10[2])in the Justice Department (10[1])to a closeted Mormon. (10[2])In that (10[1])play by an (10[1])author (10[2])with this surname, (10[2])the ghost of (10[1])Ethel (10[4])Rosenberg (10[7]-5[1])sings (10[1]-5[1])a (10[2])lullaby (10[2]-5[1])for Roy Cohn (10[1])as he dies of (10[1])AIDS. (10[3]-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, give this surname of the playwright (-5[1])of (10[1])Angels in America. (10[2])■END■ (10[9]0[8])

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