" For 10 points, name this author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust.
In one novel by this author, one character angers another by correctly guessing that the racehorse Tragopan is owned by a Greek. In a scene from another novel by him, two characters pretend to be Havelock Ellis and Kraft-Ebbing while interrogating an old man about his homosexuality. He depicted Jujutla fighting a cock handled by the dwarf (*) Abe Kusich in the garage of a character who causes a riot in front of Kahn's Persian Palace Theatre by attacking Adore Loomis. He created a protagonist who is shot by the cripple Peter Doyle and tormented by his editor Shrike. The protagonist of one of his novels becomes infatuated with Faye Greener, the girlfriend of Homer Simpson, and paints "The Burning of Los Angeles." For 10 points, name this author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust.
In one novel by this author, one character angers another by correctly guessing that the racehorse Tragopan is owned by a Greek.
Nathanael West [or Nathan Weinstein]