Round 5: 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 (10[1])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. (10[1])An author with this surname wrote a play in which a power broker claims that labels merely reflect one’s “clout,” wishes (10[1])to be reborn as an octopus, and offers a job in the Justice Department to a closeted Mormon. (10[1])In that play by an author with this surname, the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg 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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