Round 3: Tossup 4

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

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