He created a professor who calls two black students (*) "spooks" but is revealed to be passing as white.
In one novella by this author, the protagonist quotes from "Why I Am Not a Christian" to Hawes Caudwell, the Dean of Men at Winesburg College but ends up dead in the Korean War. The interfaith marriage of Libby and Paul Herz causes strain in a novel he wrote narrated by Gabe Wallach. He created a professor who calls two black students (*) "spooks" but is revealed to be passing as white. This creator of Coleman Silk in The Human Stain imagined the United States turning into a fascist state under President Lindbergh in The Plot Against America. For 10 points, name this author who wrote of Nathan Zuckerman in American Pastoral.
In one novella by this author, the protagonist quotes from "Why I Am Not a Christian" to Hawes Caudwell, the Dean of Men at Winesburg College but ends up dead in the Korean War.
Philip Milton Roth